ARUA-CD Climate Resilient African Landscapes:

The severity of interconnected socio-economic and environmental impacts on landscapes and people across Africa are exacerbating as a result of land degradation, conflict, poor governance, competition for land and inequality, exacerbated by climate change. In pursuing pathways towards a more resilient future, collaborative and multi-stakeholder governance and management of landscapes have been promoted by government agencies, NGOs and conservation organisations as a possible solution. However, there is no single way to achieve effective collaboration, and different landscape projects have experimented with different entry points and engagement processes. The ARUA Centre of Excellence in Climate & Development as part of a ARUA-UKRI Partnership and Network (SPaN) project aims to investigate different approaches to engagement and collaboration through a special webinar which is grounded in the Special Issue on “Collaboration and Multi-Stakeholder Engagement in Landscape Governance and Management in Africa: Lessons from Practice", published in the Land journal. The webinar will be followed by a workshop which will identify knowledge gaps and priority needs for the development of a short course that addresses the discussed priorities through effective stakeholder engagement approaches and techniques.