Call for proposals

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Theme: “Transitioning pastoralism towards a green economy: social, economic and environmental potentials”.

The World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP)
The World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP) is a programme under IUCN’s Global Drylands Initiative. WISP is a global advocacy and capacity building network that promotes sustainable pastoral development for both poverty reduction and environmental management. WISP is a catalyst for partnership fostering between pastoralists, governments, Non-Governmental Organizations, International Organizations and the private sector. With its knowledge management approach and its engagement for advocacy, capacity building and networking, the programme contributes to enabling pastoralists to sustainably manage the rangelands and to demonstrate that their land use and system is an effective way of harnessing natural rangeland resources.
WISP expects to lead a study on the theme: “Transitioning pastoralism towards a green economy: social, economic and environmental potentials”. This study is initiated in the framework to put in common new knowledge and experiences on pastoralism and its contribution to the green economy with the aim of leading an advocacy at the next General Assembly of UNEP.

Background
In the past, pastoralism was often seen as responsible of environmental degradation in the drylands. These negative conceptions on pastoralism are strongly influenced by the extensive strategies of production which characterizes it, and also by the images of overgrazing and land degradation around water sources during certain droughts. These misconceptions have led to inadequate, often hostile, development policies and interventions which have erected major barriers to sustainable land management and have entrenched pastoral poverty.
Nowadays, progress of knowledge on the viability of pastoralism is certain. Pastoralism constitutes a viable system of production and lands use in the drylands, and also a sustainable solution of environmental maintenance in favour of biodiversity. However, the results of this progress remain unknown, especially regarding the contribution of pastoralism to the green economy. The role of traditionally excluded groups in this innovation, such as women and youth, tends also to be ignored.
Alternative options of policies remain to be formulated. Among these alternatives, the option to support pastoralism and to strengthen this system of production towards the options of an inclusive and green economy motivated by the social welfare and solidly anchored on the sustainable modes natural resources use and management. It is to modernize pastoralism, not by urging the pastoral breeders to settle or by making them some intensive breeders, but by emphasizing the logic of pastoral production system strategies which enable sustainable economic, social and environmental profits, and by emphasizing the use of new opportunities arising that were not present in the past (mainly due to technological/infrastructure reasons).

The objectives of the study

The objective of this study is to provide evidence that sustainable pastoralism is a way for sustainable development for several communities and natural resource use, and to demonstrate the conditions under which transitioning pastoralism towards a green economy can be made more effective. The study will use a framework for understanding sustainable pastoralism in connection with the green economy and will contribute to strengthening that framework. More specifically, the publication has the following aims:
1.       Examine pastoralists’ and pastoral livelihoods’ innovations, both in social terms and in connection with the green economy, and with special attention to the incorporation of traditionally marginalized groups, especially women and youth[1];
2.       Document contributions and different challenges of pastoralism in future societies, especially under a green economy;
3.       Present experiences and solutions to strengthen the transition of pastoralism towards an inclusive and green economy;
4.       Demonstrate evidences of the impact strengthening pastoralism in an inclusive and green economy, in particular eradication of marginalization, poverty and food insecurity, environmental sustainability and improvement of biodiversity (including ecosystems management);
5.       Examine strengths and weaknesses, opportunities for an effective contribution of pastoralism to an inclusive and green economy;
6.       Present and analyze the complexity and the richness of the theme.
7.       Present recommendations for an improvement of the contribution of pastoralism to the green economy and the adoption of this as post-2015 sustainable development goal.
The study is designed to inform decision makers and practitioners of how sustainable pastoralism is innovating to tackle new challenges and making use of new opportunities, and how it is walking the path towards an inclusive and green economy. The study aims to enable advocates to make a more convincing and evidence-based case for pastoral innovation, and to enable policy makers to identify policy gaps and bottlenecks that are undermining efforts to sustainably develop pastoralist societies. The results will be presented also at the UNEP General Assembly.

Framework for analysis
The study is guided by a common framework inspired by the three pillars of the sustainable development:
1.       Social (Pastoral livelihoods, Governance, Human development and pastoral communities poverty; marginalization; incorporation of women and youth);
2.       Economy (pastoral production system, marketing, international trade of pastoral products and fair-trade);
3.       Environment (rangelands ecosystem management, biodiversity, climate change).
It is a question of analysing the pastoralism by focusing objectively on sustainable development of pastoral livelihoods, the challenges pastoralism face for transitioning towards a green economy, what are the mutational processes that pastoralist societies are undergoing to adapt to the modern settings, what role women and youth play, and how pastoralism will be an important activity in the future.
For every analysed aspect, these essential questions are to be kept in mind:
-          What has worked and still works;
-          What was there in the past but does not work;
-          What has repeatedly failed ;
-          What is new and gives great opportunities.
Proposals are expected to shed some light on the value of the framework and provide insight into sustainable pastoralism and the way it innovates, it adapts to new challenges, and it contributes or could contribute more to the green economy.

Proposals submission process
1-      Submit a summary of your proposal to the following address wisp@iucn.org. Copy to Pablo.MANZANO@iucn.org and Razingrim.OUEDRAOGO@iucn.org. Deadline of submissions on October 16th, 2013.
2-      Submit your proposal completely drafted with notes and bibliography to the same address wisp@iucn.org. Copy to Pablo.MANZANO@iucn.org and Razingrim.OUEDRAOGO@iucn.org. Deadline of submissions on October 30th, 2013.
3-      Feedback will be given to you via the e-mail address by which you submitted your proposal.

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