Presented by Fiona Flintan for a Webinar on the International Land Coalition Rangelands Initiative, 12 December 2019

1. ILC RANGELANDS INITIATIVE – GLOBAL
COMPONENT
Fiona Flintan
12th December 2019

2. Background
• Global component established in 2016 as an off-shoot of
Africa component, and as a result of demand from ILC
members working on rangelands regiona/global.
• Core partnership of ILRI, FAO-PKH, IFAD, UNEP, WRI, IUCN,
ICARDA, CIRAD, CELEP & Rangelands Partnership
• ILRI responsible for the coordination of global component.
• Global component works across two regional Rangelands
Initiatives (Africa and Asia) and links with the Latin America
Semi-Arids Platform. Reference Group – ILC rangelands
members and partners.
• Global component maintains a link with the ILC Secretariat,
supporting them on rangeland issues; contributing generally
to development of CBIs (commitment-based initiatives). ILC
mailing list/slack.

3. Background
Goal: Increased tenure security of local land and resource users
in rangelands
Objectives 1:To strengthen community of practice on
rangelands-land issues at global level [CONNECT]
Objective 2: To build the capacity of ILC members to
mobilise and engage with decision-makers at global levels
[MOBILISE]
Objective 3: To influence changes in policy, legislation and
global strategic frameworks [INFLUENCE]

4. Activities and achievements - Connecting
• Connecting members around different events e.g.
participation in and contribution to the WB Conference
on Land and Poverty
• Development of a Land Portal Thematic Portfolio on
Rangelands, Drylands and Pastoralism
https://landportal.org/book/thematic/rangelands-
drylands-pastoralism
• Global landscapes forum (Bonn & NY 2019)
https://events.globallandscapesforum.org/agenda/new-
york-2019/day-1/drylands-and-rangelands-harnessing-
change/
• Issue Papers, Research Papers, Manual, Blogs, E-Bulletin,
Leaflets, Twitter, Flickr,

5. Activities and achievements - Connecting
• Website: http://www.rangelandsinitiative.org

6. Activities and achievements - Influencing
• Organisation of an e-discussion
on Making Rangelands More
Secure
• Supported Learning Routes and
south-south exchanges
• Want to contribute to
development of global
indicators on land
• International Year of
Rangelands and Pastoralists
• Planned key publication: “Who
Owns the Rangelands?” –
collecting maps and data

7. Activities and achievements - Mobilising
• Improving attention to
rangelands within our own
organisations and partners;
• Supporting regional initiatives;
• Supporting the ILC Secretariat
on rangelands issues;
• Contributing to the
implementation of the FAO
VGGT Technical Guide on
improving governance of
pastoral lands.

8. Next steps
• Defining new strategy for next three years and raising
funds for this including:
• filling data gap and production of key documents;
• building capacity of our own organisations;
• continue to support regional initiatives including West
Africa and MENA rangelands Initiative development;
• influencing global processes such as UN Decade of
Ecosystem Restoration; UN Decade of Family Farming;
IYRP
• facilitating sharing of lessons and experiences
between members and globally.

9. Challenges
• Always been a strong reliance on the
coordinator/coordinating organization – this is not
sustainable; lack of involvement of some partners - lack of
value of RI?
• Diverse set of partners with different interests etc.
• The Initiative is not sustainable in terms of funding;
• Increasing competition between ILC initiatives – and push
from ILC Secretariat to “celebrate and let go”;
• Difficult to have an initiative that has a very narrow and
specific focus as competes for space with other initiatives
that are broader and include land as a component; push
from some partners to become a broader alliance
(following SAPA/CAPA?);

10. Challenges
• With new emphasis on complimentary funding as a term
of receiving funds from ILC, there is a danger of losing
the focus of the RI and become more a collection of
different projects, rather than a hub for information
exchange, building capacity, influencing etc.
• Attribution – challenge of reporting“Rangelands
Initiative” actions/results, and not actions/results of our
partners funded from other sources.
• Interesting to see where we are after the next 3 years –
certainly land tenure and governance in rangelands will
not be resolved, but how we as in initiative can continue
contributing to this is not completely clear!

11. This work is financed by
International Land Coalition and partners
It contributes to the CGIAR Research Program on
Livestock Agri-food Systems and PIM Flagship 5
Acknowledgements

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