Using the future to make better decisions in the present. SPACES Workshop Report, Diani, Kenya 7-9th September 2015

SPACES organized a three day workshop with the title “Using the future to make better decisions in the present” in Leopard Beach hotel in Ukunda, Kenya from 7 to 9 September 2015, which gathered a wide range of organizations including experts in poverty alleviation and sustainable resource management from government, community organizations, non-governmental organizations and conservation and education sectors in coastal Kenya. This was the second workshop organized with the same participants.

The workshop aimed to:

1) Engage stakeholders in the findings from the SPACES project.

2) Explore how human wellbeing and ecosystem health might change in different future scenarios.

3) Identify interventions for poverty alleviation and sustainable ecosystem management and explore how they would work under different scenarios.

4) Identify existing initiatives (“seeds”) that could change the course of the scenarios.

During day 1, the focus was on disseminating and discussing SPACES preliminary research findings and re-engage with the future scenarios developed in the first workshop (February 2015).

Day 2 ́s focus was on exploring human wellbeing and ecosystem health and explore how this might change in different future scenarios. Also to identify and stress-test interventions for poverty alleviation and sustainable ecosystem management and explore how they would work under different scenarios.

On day 3, collaborating researchers from the SAPECS team (Southern African Program on Ecosystem Services) led an exercise where participants discussed ideas of an existing project or initiative (“seeds”) that they believed could have a positive impact on the future.

Throughout the workshop key messages on poverty alleviation and sustainable resource management was collected that will be summarized and delivered at one national and one international policy level workshop organized by SPACES in 2016.

The workshop was facilitated by the project partners and applied participatory tools and methods to ensure close interactions among the participants and facilitate sharing of knowledge and experience. Experiential learning was encouraged through group work, presentations, role play and plenary sessions.

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