African Botanicals & Natural Product Innovation
Sustainable Botanical Sourcing Protocols (Concept)
A research concept to document sustainable harvest and cultivation protocols for priority African botanicals.
ResearchCo-Funding Sought
This is an illustrative concept. Details marked “to be confirmed” will be updated after co-design with communities and partners. It is not funded or approved.
Overview
Project summary
- Location
- Kenya — sites to be confirmed
- Programme pillar
- African Botanicals & Natural Product Innovation
- Implementation status
- Research
- Funding status
- Co-Funding Sought
- Budget (public)
- To be confirmed
- Committed
- To be confirmed
- Funding gap
- To be confirmed
- Duration
- To be confirmed
- Beneficiaries
- To be defined. Not yet verified.
- Partners
- Partners being sought
- SDGs
- SDG 12Responsible Consumption & Production
- SDG 15Life on Land
- SDG 8Decent Work & Economic Growth
Design
Problem, objectives and model
- Problem statement
- Unregulated harvesting threatens botanical species and the livelihoods that depend on them.
- Objectives
- Identify priority species with communities
- Develop and test sustainable harvest protocols
- Design benefit-sharing frameworks
- Implementation model
- Research partnership model with community knowledge holders.
- Research component
- Ethnobotanical documentation and quality testing with research partners.
- Outputs
- Expected outcomes
- Documented sourcing protocols
- Benefit-sharing agreements
- Evidence
- To be confirmed
- Climate relevance
- Biodiversity protection and resilient livelihoods.
- Indicators
- Species documented
- Collectors trained
Documents & gallery
Supporting materials
Concept notes, budgets and monitoring reports are shared with verified partners through the secure data room.