Annex 2: Report of conclusion of IPSI Collaborative Activity
The following form is for use in reporting the conclusion of an IPSI Collaborative Activity. Please fill out this form
when the Collaborative Activity is finished and submit to the IPSI Secretariat (isi@unu.edu).
Reporting Date:

16 April 2020

Project title:
Facilitating the Development of Taiwan Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (TPSI)
Actual term (e.g. 1 January 2014 – 31 December 2015):
1 October 2014 – 31 December 2017
Please provide a description of the activities and its outputs and/or outcomes below:
I. Pilot implementation phase for TPSI development, 2014-2015
October 2014: the first draft of the National Strategic Framework for Promoting the Satoyama Initiative in Taiwan wasproposed by NDHU;
Early 2015: revised comprehensive TPSI Strategic Framework was adopted by the Forestry Bureau;
 TPSI goal: to build up a national multi-stakeholder partnership network in which stakeholders could
consolidate their complementary strengths, resources, assets, and knowledge for solving problems in aholistic and synergistic manner;
 TPSI objective: to work with IPSI on a nation-wide implementation of activities under the Satoyama Initiative(Figure 1);
 TPSI Strategic Framework: two targets – ‘Addressing issues of SEPLS and formulating solutions’ and‘Conservation and revitalization of SEPLS’; five types of activities – ‘international participation’, ‘policyresearch’, ‘knowledge enhancement’, ‘capacity building’, and ‘on-the-ground activities’ (Figure 2).

Figure 1. Relationship between the Satoyama Initiative,
IPSI and TPSI (revised from IPSI Strategy, 2012)

Figure 2. TPSI Strategic Framework (based on IPSI
Operational Framework, 2010)2015: NDHU submitted: one case study report to IPSI titled ‘SEPLS coordination, planning and management: Conservation of a rice
paddy cultural landscape in an indigenous community, Taiwan’; two TPSI reports: ‘Development process of the environmental interpretation training course in Pakalongay
Village, Hualien County, Taiwan’ and ‘Knowledge and use of Amis indigenous plants in Fuxing Tribe, Xinshe
Village, Hualien County, Taiwan’;128-29 May 2015: to encourage experience sharing from other TPSI members, NDHU hosted the Satoyama Initiative Case Study
Report Workshop for on-the-ground practitioners.
23-24 September 2015: First International Conference on Eco-Agriculture and the Satoyama Initiative was held in HualienCounty, Taiwan. It became a milestone for taking the satoyama concept to a new level of biodiversity conservation andrevitalization of rural areas in Taiwan. The conference was co-convened by HDARES and the Forestry Bureau with the support
from NDHU and SWAN. Remarkably, it was the first time when Taiwan’s agricultural and nature conservation sectors set outto work together on the new concepts and approaches of eco-agriculture and the Satoyama Initiative.
II. Extension implementation phase for TPSI development, 2016-2017‘Act local’: capacity-building and on-the-ground activities
2016: four regional networks (TPSI-N, TPSI-W, TPSI-S, TPSI-E) were established: purpose: regional capacity building and nation-wide exchange of on-the-ground experiences with otherpractitioners; format: one- or two-day regional workshops arranged by each of the regional networks throughout the year
(a total of four workshops per year); participants: local community organizations, government institutions, NGOs/ NPOs, and academia;
2016-2017: increased participation in TPSI regional workshops: institutional units – 42 in 2016 and 89 in 2017, participants 63 in 2016 and 148 in 2017 (Figure 3)

Figure 3. Increased participation in TPSI regional workshops, 2016-2017
August 2016 and May 2017: ‘Capacity building Workshops on Promotion of TPSI’ were conducted as capacity-building
activities designed specifically for the administrative staffs from the Forestry Bureau headquarters and its eight district offices: a total of 55 and 20 personnel, respectively, attended the Workshops, while decrease in the number ofparticipants may be explained by the staffs’ improved familiarity with the Satoyama Initiative;
15 September 2017: the first-time national scale ‘TPSI-all Workshop on Review and Outlook of TPSI Development’ wasorganized by NDHU in cooperation with CSEE at the National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung.
 it brought together representatives from different government institutions, NGOs/ NPOs, communityorganizations, academic/ educational institutions and citizens – a total of 150 participants for the morning
symposium and 50 participants for the afternoon workshop;
 TPSI-all helped the participants from four different regional networks to learn the origin, process andprogress of the Satoyama Initiative in Taiwan as well as discuss challenges and strategies of TPSI
development in recent years and for the future.
Successful implementation of on-the-ground activities was submitted as:case study reports to IPSI website: 2015: Environmental Ethics Foundation of Taiwan (EEFT) (2015);
 2016: HDARES; Tse-Xin Organic Agriculture Foundation, andpublications to the Satoyama Initiative Thematic Review (SITR):
 2015: SWAN;

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2016: NDHU;
2017: HDARES.

Adapt national: policy research and knowledge enhancement activitiesThroughout 2016-2017, TPSI was putting effort into completing a cross-domain governance discussion on establishing a‘Forest-River-Village-Sea’ green conservation network guided by the principles of the Satoyama Initiative and eco-agriculture.
It paved the way for adoption of the ‘2018-2021 Taiwan Ecological Network’ in the next project phase (in May 2018).
Think global: international participation activities
NDHU presented achievements and outcomes of TPSI development in order to facilitate the knowledge exchange with a wider
international audience – both regionally and globally:
 January 2016: 6th Global Conference of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI-6) inSiem Reap, Cambodia;
 April 2017: Satoyama Initiative Regional Workshop in Sabah, Malaysia;
2016: NDHU assisted the Forestry Bureau in inviting Mr. Kazuaki Nagano from Ministry of Environment of Japan (MOEJ) andMr. Toru Hayami from the Hayami Forest to share their experience and expertise in revitalization policies of Japan’s satoyama
and satochi areas, as well as their sustainable forestry practices in the first area certified by the Forest Stewardship Council(FSC);
November 2017: NDHU and the Forestry Bureau invited Mr. Naoya Tsukamoto and Ms. Evonne Yiu from UNU-IAS to givespeeches in the morning symposium session on ‘IPSI-TPSI Exchange’ and ‘Satoumi Initiative in Japan’, as well as to take partin the afternoon workshop on ‘Youth Participation in TPSI Development’ with young satoyama practitioners from all four
regional networks of TPSI: 202 participants: 35 from government institutions, 60 – NGOs/ NPOs and community organizations, 21 –academic/ educational institutions and 24 citizens; the events were not only a chance for a wider audience to learn firsthand about the Satoyama Initiative,
but also helped to inform IPSI Secretary about the progress of both the Satoyama Initiative and TPSI
development in Taiwan.

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