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1. Unleashing Business Opportunities for Sustainable Landscapes
Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
Session 7
Sustaining and catalyzing
investments for forests
and landscapes in Africa:
towards a Forest and
Landscape Investment
Platform

2. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
Session 7: Sustaining and catalyzing investments for forests and landscapes in
Africa: towards a Forest and Landscape Investment Platform
Time Content Speakers
14:00 Introduction
Facilitator: Sara Scherr, LPFN /
EcoAgriculture Partners
14:05
Next steps: towards a Forest and
Landscape Investment Platform
Ludwig Liagre, GM UNCCD
14:15
Key messages from FLIF and how they can
feed the next steps
Sessions reporters
14:45
High-level Panel: Which orientations and
roadmap to catalyze investments in FLR?
Perspectives from private sector,
development fund, government, regional
platform and international organization
• Peter Karanja, Freshco Macadamia
• Prime Ngabonziza, RWFA
• Mamadou Moussa Diakhité, NEPAD
• Pascal Martinez, GEF
• Christophe Besacier, FAO
15:15 Facilitated discussion and wrap up Facilitator and audience
15:45 Closing remarks Guest of honor

3. Unleashing Business Opportunities for Sustainable Landscapes
Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
Next steps: towards a
Forest and Landscape
Investment Platform
Ludwig Liagre, GM UNCCD

4. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
OBJECTIVES
 helping forest & landscape actors reach out beyond
traditional sources of investment/finance (national and
regional advocacy)
 mainstreaming FLR into investment flows (development
banks, public financing schemes, FDI, etc)
 supporting the development of landscapes projects “ready
for investments”/good quality bankable projects
 improving matching / connection between restoration
projects/promotors and relevant financing institutions and
investors, including through financing and investment
partnerships
TARGET GROUPS
 Landscape business
operators : small farmers,
start-ups, SMEs,
cooperatives,
agribusinesses, aggregators,
etc
 Enabling public
institutions : line ministries
and related public agencies,
technical government bodies
and agencies, etc
 Investors and donors
National and international
commercial banks, impact
funds, development banks,
etc

5. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
Services offer
Service 1
Capacity
development
and learning
network
• Organizing training seminars, including e-learning courses
• Increasing knowledge on FLR business development and successful investment
• Landscape finance learning community among financial institutions
• Exchanging good practices and lessons learned among FLR and other landscape leaders
• Raise awareness among government policymakers of opportunities for FLR and landscape
investment to support inclusive green growth and SDGs
Service 2:
Tailor-made
advisory for
investment
cases
• Providing technical, financial and legal expertise for the design of investible landscape
projects
• Advising project developers and promotors in the selection of investors
• (Possibly) Co-financing project feasibility studies and design, e.g. with a project preparation
facility or matching fund approach
Service 3:
Marketplace
forum
• Connecting business leaders, investors, investment enablers and project developers
• Raising awareness in business and finance community on landscape partnerships
opportunities
• Exchanging good practices and lessons learned
• Facilitating the development of landscape partnerships and investments
• Engage with major investment forums (e.g., Grow Africa) to mobilize landscape investment

6. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
Ongoing initiatives
Existing landscape finance initiatives in Africa
 ALAP-Finance
 Global Landscapes Forum – the Investment case
 AFR100 work on financing, etc
Coordination
role of the Landscape
Investment Platform
African initiatives for green growth
 Grow Africa
 African Agribusiness Alliance
 Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, etc
Mainstreaming
role of the Landscape
Investment Platform

7. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
Cross-cutting themes
 Enabling environment & policy advocacy
 Business incubation and acceleration
 Business skills developement
 ESG standards
 Risk mitigation mechanisms
 ….
Action lines/Working
Groups

8. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
Points for discussion
Target
groups/be
neficiaries
Services &
Products
Boundaries
Objectives
Activities
Synergies
with
existing
initiatives
Coordinator
&
facilitators
Funding
sources/
model
Which Landscape
Investment Platform /
Investment
facilitation
mechanism?

9. THANK YOU
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10. Unleashing Business Opportunities for Sustainable Landscapes
Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
Key messages
Session reporters:
1. Jan Bock, Susanne Wallenhofer
2. Sofia Faruqi
3. Anders Nordheim, Ludwig Liagre
4. Christophe Besacier
5. Dow Maneerattana
6. Rao Matta, Fraser Brown

11. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
• Base investment promotion strategies
on value chain development (bottom-
up-approach)
• Tailor-made, country-specific solutions
• Strengthen local financial systems and
enabling environment
Reporting Session 1:
Business Opportunities and Challenges in Agroforestry and Forestry
Key messages Strategic needs
• Know your value chain and the local
realities
• Start small, grow slow, be prepared for
the long-run
• Approach investors with a clear
business plan and know your target
investment size
• seed & kick-start funding from public
sources for a limited period and a clear
exit strategy to achieve sustainability

12. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
• Clear definitions of investments and
restoration
• Necessary to show profit and scale
potential to investors
• Long-term capital
• Time horizon of 5-15 years
• Lower interest rates
• Continue to identify business models
and share knowledge
Reporting Session 2:
Business Champions in Restoration
Key messages Strategic needs
• There are profitable businesses in the
restoration space
• Wide range of business models
• Companies in growth mode need
capital. Time horizon doesn’t always
match
• Trade-offs between profit and impact
• Maximize volume or ecosystem
services? Jobs or profit?

13. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
• Seekers of funding need to understand
the information needs and
characteristics of each investor to
provide a good investment case
• Funds are often tailored for specific
classes of investment – matching is
important
• A Forest and Landscape Investment
Platform may improve communication
between investors and those seeking
funding
Reporting Session 3:
Investors and Donors Round-table: Approaches, Challenges and Priorities
Key messages Strategic needs
• There are lots of funds available for
investments in forest and landscapes
• A variety of investor types are present
in the market, including multi-national
and bilateral donors, private investment
funds and microfinance
• Each of these have specific and often
different investment areas and needs
• Matching opportunities with the right
investors is important

14. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
• Capacity development and learning
• Incubators need to be aware of the
variety of FLR investments opportunities
• Project proponents need capacity
development for project bankability
• Marketplace & communication forum
• Connect to FLR investors
• Facilitate networking and emulation
• Advocacy towards policy makers on
importance of a conducive enabling env.
• Tailor-made advisory services
• Quantify eco, soc. and env. benefits
Reporting Session 4:
Incubating, accelerating and scaling-up FLR relevant business models
Key messages Strategic needs
• Incubators are key to connect
investment to SMEs & mainstream FLR,
their importance in that context
shouldn’t be neglected
• Adapt services to the needs of the
clients
• Set clear rules all along the process
(contract) and monitor (measures)
• Knowledge of and information about
the environment: policies, technologies,
market…

15. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
• Capacity development and learning
• Network to exchange good practices on
monitoring metrics for pledges and
investors
• Marketplace & communication forum
• No reinventing the wheel on
developing partnerships and
investment mechanisms
• Tailor-made advisory services
Reporting Session 5:
Environmental, socioeconomic, and governance standards and monitoring
restoration
Key messages Strategic needs
• High interest from Uganda, Kenya,
Ethiopia and Rwanda to continue to
exchange good practices and lessons
learned on monitoring tree-based
landscape restoration and water
benefits using technology.
• Encourage transformative change
through non-traditional funding
mechanisms, certified process as a way
to ensure triple bottom line.
• Smallholder farmers are key
stakeholders, but few businesses and
investors are tapping into this group

16. Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
• Capacity development and learning
• Focusing on research and innovation
• Marketplace & communication forum
• Raise awareness on best practices and
institutional models / incentives e.g. RDB
single window system
• Tailor-made advisory services
• For specific enterprises and investment
areas
Reporting Session 6:
Mitigating risks for private sector investments in FLR
Key messages Strategic needs
• High risk, uncertainty, and transaction
costs, low profitability and visibility
• Risk mitigation critical to enhance levels
of investments into FLR
• Need for new ways and means:
• De-risking by combining different types
of investments (blending) and investors
(“landscape partnership”)
• Changing the classic architecture and
design elements of investments (e.g. CC
lending instrument, level of degradation)
• Focus on smallholders / SMFE risks

17. Unleashing Business Opportunities for Sustainable Landscapes
Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
High level panel
Perspectives from:
• Peter Karanja, Freshco Macadamia
• Prime Ngabonziza, RWFA
• Mamadou Moussa Diakhité, NEPAD
• Pascal Martinez, GEF
• Christophe Besacier, FAO

18. Unleashing Business Opportunities for Sustainable Landscapes
Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
Facilitated discussion
and wrap-up

19. Unleashing Business Opportunities for Sustainable Landscapes
Forest & Landscape Investment Forum
Closing remarks