Summary
Truly inclusive landscapes depend not only on the quality of collaboration,
but also on the quality of the overall governance context, the policy frameworks, the level of
devolution of planning tasks, and the capacity of stakeholders to take up new roles and responsibilities
that multi-stakeholder governance entails. Strengthening the role of civil society within this process, in
particular the strengthening of the roles of youth, women and indigenous peoples, requires more than
informal interaction and dialogue. Instead, it requires a more strategic approach to strengthening the
position of women, youth, indigenous peoples and environmental rights activists within the societies in
which they operate. A rights based approach addresses the current and the desired roles and
responsibilities of individuals, communities, companies, societies and states vis-à-vis each other, and
vis-à-vis the environment that they share. It helps raising the ambition of stakeholder dialogue and
collaboration, and helps in setting benchmarks, and develop checks-and-balances within the context of
conservation and development, and should therefore be an intrinsic part of an inclusive landscape
approach.