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Abbi Buxton5 February 2014

LSM-ASM engaging in dialogue – Indaba 2014

Author nameDateAbbi Buxton5 February 2014

IGF Regional Meeting, Indaba

The parameters of a Dialogue

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IIED’s ASM Knowledge Programme

Global engagement and virtual network

Sector Dialogues

National Learning and Leadership Groups

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Addressing gaps…

Lack of knowledge about ASM sector and solutions

Lack of trust and collaboration between sector stakeholders

Poor representation of voices “on the ground”

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A dialogue on LSM-ASM

Adapted from The Forest Dialogue www.theforestsdialogue.org

http://www.theforestsdialogue.org/

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How does this lead to actual change?The impact pathway

Dialogue leading to consensus and win-win

solutions

Improved ASM-LSM relations and enabling environment

for ASM

New relations between

previously disparate

stakeholders

National governments

engaged

New practical initiatives and collaborations

Governments acting on new

national targets

Participants with new

knowledge

Improved policies and practices in companies and organisations

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Who are the “right players” to achieve change?

Policy connected individuals

Representing all stakeholder groups with an impact on the ground

Willing to engage in open and honest dialogue

Senior enough to effect change with the organisation

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Session agenda

Part 1: How do we get the right players to the table?

Part 2: What is the change you would like to see?

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What next?• Approaching the “right players”,

progressing on ways to bring them to the table

• Fundraising for a mid-2014 start

• Preparing a concept note

• Forming a dialogue advisory group

• Engaging with the related and major international policy processes (e.g. IGF, OECD…)

Keep in touch!www.iied.org/asm

[email protected]

http://www.iied.org/asm

mailto:[email protected]

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ANNEX: What does change look like? Examples from The Forest Dialogue

Individual• New perspectives and insights• New relationships with stakeholders

International

• Forging global consensus on sensitive and pressing issues in the sector

• Identifying solutions / innovative approaches to intractable problems in the sector

• Creating new global alliances• Influencing legal processes and policies

Institutional• New projects implementing agreed solutions• Changes in operational policy• Opportunities for improving corporate strategies

National• Changes in national policy• Creating space for civil society to engage