Private Sector Engagement In Kenya’s Restoration Efforts: Webinar

Date: May 27, 2021

Time: 10:00 AM – 11.30 AM EAT

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Background:

The Private sector plays an important role in landscape restoration in Kenya. Their contribution is key in achieving the commitments that the Government of Kenya made to increase tree cover to 10% and restore 5.1 million hectares of deforested and degraded landscapes by 2030, towards the Bonn Challenge and AFR100.

Private sector engagement and involvement has been widely seen and recognized as a mechanism for financing and incentivizing landscape restoration. Kenya private sector actors have come together to plan ways in which they can upscale their efforts, tackle the challenges they face as they engage in landscape restoration as well as attract more private sector actors who are not yet involved to join this movement.

Members from World Agroforestry and Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR-ICRAF), Safaricom, Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA), African Agency for Arid Resources (AGAR) Ltd, Better Globe Forestry, Seedballs Kenya, Agrochemicals Associations of Kenya representative (AAK) and the University of Nairobi have planned this webinar as a key theme leading to the National Landscape Restoration Conference planned for July 2021.

Goal of the webinar

Showcase the entrepreneurial opportunities for landscape restoration and what is needed to enhance its potential

Objectives of the Webinar:

• Showcase opportunities to support landscape restoration through corporate shared value.
• Recruit the private sector to climate action and climate finance by showing what is possible and sharing lessons learnt.
• Create a platform for private sector actors to network and interact with actors who can provide advisory on how to get involved or invest in landscape restoration.
• Identify opportunities for greening enterprise approaches that can have a negative impact on the landscape while highlighting bottlenecks and challenges to restoration linked businesses.

WEBINAR PROGRAMME

Session 1 Landscape restoration enterprises Inputs/outputs Seedballs (10 mins)	Seedballs Kenya: Teddy Kinyanjui	What are the enterprise solutions that exist for the private sector in landscape restoration? Innovations by Seedballs Kenya (e.g., Seedballs, Cookswell Jikos) What challenges exist in the production, selling/distribution and M&E of these products?
Value chains Non-timber forest products from the drylands (10 mins)	AGAR Ltd: Tommaso Iser Menini	Are there missed opportunities if the private sector doesn’t get involved/ support landscape restoration? Sharing lessons learnt The importance of the private sector involvement in the whole value chain
Timber products (10 mins)	Better Globe Forestry: Jan Vandenabeele County forester of Makueni Chairman of a group of farmers	Challenges, solutions and opportunities of private sector engagement in landscape restoration
Question and Answer session 5 minutes for questions and responses
Session 2 (25 mins) Corporate Shared Value	Safaricom - Michael Koech (5 min) Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) - George Oselu (10 min)	What is the role of the private sector in investing in landscape restoration? How can the private sector use CSI to be effectively involved in landscape restoration: Example: Case of efforts by KTDA to lower dependence on the use of firewood? What networks are (or can be put) in place for others to get involved and link to projects on the ground?
Session 3 Greening the black: Identifying pathways for sectors and enterprises that negatively impact the environment to support/focus on restoration. (15 minutes)	University of Nairobi: Dr. Dora Kilalo Agrochemicals Associations of Kenya representative (AAK): Benson Ngigi	Sectors that negatively impact biodiversity and human life. How to utilize the regulations that are already in place and what is being done to be able to live with the chemicals?
Question and Answer session 5 mins for questions
Discussion (5 mins)	World Agroforestry-Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR-ICRAF): Jonathan Muriuki	How can the private sector be organized and involved in getting the solutions?

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Submitted by VictorKamau on 24 May 2021