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Proposal for Collaborative Activities under the International Partnership for theSatoyama Initiative (IPSI)
Project title:
Exploring options to integrate the Satoyama Initiative within policies and decision-making processes

Implementing partners:
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
United Nations University (UNU)

Corresponding IPSI clusters:
Cluster 2: Policy Research

Background:
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), established under an initiative of the Japanese
government in 1998, is a research institute focusing on national and international environmental policies forrealising sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region. Its research encompasses various environmental fields,of which natural resource management constitutes one of the core groups of the organisation alongside climatechange and sustainable consumption and production.
Through involvement in international policy initiatives and networking activities, IGES contributes to policy
formulation through information dissemination and recommendations based on research outcomes. As well as
participating in major international conferences, IGES holds the annual International Forum for Sustainable Asiaand the Pacific (ISAP), sharing the latest research results and facilitating discussions among stakeholders for new
policy recommendations. Based on case studies of participatory community forest management in Southeast Asia,
IGES has also accumulated knowledge on sustainable use and management of natural resources, as well as onpolicy implications and challenges to promote participatory community forest management.
IGES has been collaborating with the United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS),
which is the Secretariat of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI), since the initial stages ofIPSI, and hopes to contribute to the activities of the partnership primarily through research, which is of strong
relevance to promoting the concept of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes within the biodiversity
conservation discourse.

Objectives:
Through the IPSI Collaborative Activity entitled “Exploring options to integrate the Satoyama Initiative withinpolicies and decision-making processes”, the implementing partners aim to promote the real-life application,
recovery or maintenance of sustainable practices observed within various Socio-Ecological Production landscapes(SEPLs) around the world, and to provide inputs to the development of future IPSI Strategic Plans based on itsresearch findings especially on options to integrate the Satoyama Initiative within policies and decision-makingprocesses.

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Activities:
To achieve the above objectives, IGES, in collaboration with the IPSI Secretariat and members, will conduct thefollowing activities:
Share the preliminary research outcomes on how policies can best integrate or promote the concept of theSatoyama Initiative based on various case studies through discussions in relevant IPSI related
meetings/workshops;-Communicate and collaborate with diverse IPSI members to identify background, factors and policies
that support the sustainable use or resilience of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes (SEPLs);-Incorporate the discussions and comments from various stakeholders of IPSI into final research findings
and policy recommendations;Organise an IPSI workshop and plenary session at the ISAP2012 to deepen discussions on “Exploring options
to integrate the Satoyama Initiative within policies and decision-making processes” by inviting key
stakeholders of IPSI;

Disseminate research findings and policy recommendations based on various case studies and arising from theIPSI Collaborative Activity through IGES partners and other relevant networks.

Outputs:
Produce a manuscript of research working paper for IPSI related workshops under consultation with UNU-IASProduce draft research findings and policy recommendations before IPSI third Global Conference (IPSI-3)
under consultation with UNU-IASProduce final research findings and policy recommendations incorporating the discussions and comments ofIPSI-3, and present the final paperTimeline:

13~14/03/2012

23~25/07/2012

Second IPSI Global Conference

Establish contact with relevant IPSI members for futurein Nairobi, Kenya

research on best policy practices

ISAP in Yokohama, Japan

Organise an expert workshop on 23 and a Session in themorning of 25 July in the ISAP on the activities of theInternational Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative andobtain feedback regarding research findings on policy
integration of the Satoyama Initiative

mid10/2012

IPSI 3 in Hyderabad, India

Launch the research discussion panel to finalise theresearch findings and policy recommendations

03/2013

TBD

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Potential partners to be engaged:
IPSI member organisations that are considered to have experience and expertises that corresponds to this project,and others to be solicited during the project period3