Draft session plan 6/7/17

Wednesday 21 June, 9:00-10:30am

Session 5: Ongoing work of the Poverty-Environment Partnership

Working Group: Scaling Up Local Green Enterprise Solutions – Towards a Global Action Agenda

Bold new approaches are needed to meet the global challenge of overcoming rural poverty and achieving the SDGs in the face of growing threats from ecosystem decline and climate change. Local green enterprises (LGEs)[1]can be a driving force behind a new vision for inclusive and sustainable rural transformation – deliveringintegrated poverty-environment-climate solutions to meet today’s rural development challenges and accelerate the transition to inclusive and resilient rural green economies.Unlocking this potential will require a more comprehensive, integrated and multi-stakeholder effortto address systemic barriers to catalyzing LGE innovation and growth;to createthe enabling conditions for LGE solutionsto achieve significant scale and impact; and to build the sustainability and resilience of the LGE sector itself as part of ongoing efforts to address ecosystem decline and climate change.

Session objectives:(1) Review and further develop draft PEP working paper on scaling up local green enterprise solutions; (2) Review and further develop work plan and mobilizePEP working group.

9:00-9:30 / Introduction:
Background and session objectives – Peter Hazlewood, facilitator (5 minutes)
Overview of draft working paper – Zeenat Niazi (15 minutes)
Reflections – Errol Douwes and Oliver Greenfield (10 minutes)
*Concept note and draft working paper to be distributed in advance
9:30-10:20 / Roundtable discussion:
1. Input to the form and content of draft working paper (30 minutes)
  • Drivers and barriers. What are key drivers and barriers that enable or hinder the development and scaling of LGEsolutions and impact?
  • Global action agenda. What are some core principals and elements of a moreintegrated (programmatic) approach to supporting and scaling up LGE solutions and impact?
  • Knowledge sharing. What are needs and options for enhancing knowledge generation and learning to support and scale up LGE solutions?
2. PEP forward planning for 2017-18 (20 minutes)
  • Comments on proposed scope of work – Phase 1 and Phase 2
  • Formalizing a PEP working group and expressions of interest

10:20-10:30 / Wrap-up:
  • Closing reflections – Fernando Pastor (tbc)
  • Wrap-up – Peter Hazlewood

[1]Encompassing formal and informal micro and small enterprises engaged in sustainable agriculture, forestry and fisheries; renewable energy; water and sanitation;and other sustainable production and service sectors.