WLE FOR GANGES WRITESHOP - Water, Land and Ecosystems

WLE and the INTEGRATING ECOSYSTEM
SOLUTIONS INTO POLICY and
INVESTMENTS (IES) FLAGSHIP
Nathanial Matthews
Global Research Coordinator
IES Flagship Leader
Why WLE
Unique selling points
§  We are not about protecting ecosystem for the sake of the ecosystem
§  We support human development by working with ecosystems and
people.
§  We see ecosystems as the foundation for agriculture productivity,
sustainable land and water management, equity, livelihoods and
prosperity
§  We are exploring the interface between rural and urban systems
§  We work across sectors to provide integrated solutions to reverse
land and water degradation at a landscape scale
§  We combine an ecological and natural resource management
approach to build resilience
How Part 1
1.  Research should be co-designed and codeveloped with stakeholders
2.  The WLE Ecosystem service and resilience
framework and GPI applied to all projects
3.  Methodologies for baseline assessments
developed and applied for ecosystem service
and natural capital assessment.
How Part 2
4. Develop a landscape planning methodology
(integrating water, ecosystems, land, people)
5. Develop a framework for generic WLE metrics,
success indicators, and knowledge base (e.g.,
for sustainability intensification practices)
6. Advance a WLE basin scale modelling and
synthesis platform
decision-making tools to assess the power and benefits that women and marginalized groups receive
from natural resource management. Finally, the flagships integrate around WLE’s core concepts of
sustainable intensification: livelihoods, productivity, efficiency and sustainability.
WLE Program Structure
Figure 1: Program structure and theory of change
INTEGRATING ECOSYSTEM SOLUTIONS INTO POLICY AND INVESTMENTS
(IES)
Harness and integrate WLE’s R4D portfolio will foster a
transition to sustainable intensification (SI) while enhancing
national and regional capacity.
Key areas of work
§  The Nile and East Africa
§  The Volta/Niger
§  The Greater Mekong
§  The Ganges
§  The Innovation Fund
LEADER:
Nathanial Matthews
IES Focal Region Location
is able to leverage the extensive capacity and research of its partners. WLE recognizes tha
ition to integrated and holistic sustainable intensification systems requires decision maker
vels—from
local
international—to make complex choices among competing uses of,
WLE
AttoScale
agement strategies for, water, land, ecosystems, energy and other resources.
IES Theory of Change
§  Engage and align with public, civil society and
private sector partners in each region, who create
or re-frame water, and and ecosystems
investments or implementation strategies.
§  Integrate WLE research to assess the long-term
impacts, risks and trade-offs of these investments
and strategies.
§  Strengthen the capacity of decision makers, WLE
Partners and Regional and National
Organizations.
§  Draw out lessons learned on sustainable
intensification for cross-regional application.
Impact Pathways
WLE Global
Flagships and
Core themes
IES Flagship
Individual Projects
Flagship IES Outcome 2025
Public institutions (e.g. governments, extension services, farmer organizations), Civil Society Orgs and
NGOs at national and sub-national level are widely promoting integrated and equitable ecosystem based
approaches to water and land management.
Flagship IES 2019 Outcome #1
10 Major development initiatives and public institutions
at national and subnational levels are using WLE’s
science and decision support tools to prioritize and inform
project implementation of equitable ecosystem based
approaches.
INDICATOR 1: # of Major development initiatives and
national and subnational public institutions that
prioritize and inform project implementation of
ecosystem based approaches using WLE science and
decision support tools;
TARGETS: 2019: 10 – 2016: 5 -- 2015: 2
Flagship IES 2019 Outcome #2
10 Public-private actors (including financing) at national
and sub-national levels are using new incentive
mechanisms (e.g. novel financial mechanisms) or business
models/markets that explicitly promote ecosystem based
approaches in natural resource management especially
agriculture using WLE science.
INDICATOR 2: # of public-private actors at national
and sub-national levels are using new incentive
mechanisms or business models/ markets that
explicitly promote ecosystem based approaches in
natural resource management especially agriculture
using WLE science.
TARGETS: 2019: 10 -- 2016: 5 -- 2015: 2
Thank you and Questions

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