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Our Mission:
To provide nature-based landscape solutions to enhance community livelihoods and unlock development through scalable interventions, nature-based enterprises, investment and collaboration among countries in Eastern and Southern Africa.
The Forests, Landscapes and Livelihoods Programme builds on the People and Landscapes programme previously implemented in Eastern and Southern Africa and takes the lead in working to effectively manage, conserve and restore the drylands, forests, woodlands and farmlands of the region to provide multiple benefits to society.
Ongoing projects / Initiatives:
- Landscape restoration and integrated water resources management in Sebeya and other catchments of Rwanda
- Improving resilience of farmers’ livelihoods to climate change through innovative, research proven climate-smart agroforestry and efficient use of tree resources in the Eastern Province and peri-urban areas of Kigali city
- Forest Landscape Restoration processes and opportunities for the Comoros
- Monitoring of forest and landscape restoration at the national and local levels
- Scaling up Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) in selected countries in support of AFR100 IA with GFCCP for Madagascar and Ethiopia
- Catalyzing Private sector commitment – Bonn Challenge-A platform for success
- Technical assistance in improvement of TRM and seed value chain
- Support to the Rwanda 6th National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity
Other important areas within the theme are ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation and disaster risk reduction. The programme works to innovate and rethink landscape financing by engaging with public and private sector to support sustainable finance landscape restoration. Key flagships programmes include: Support to the Bonn Challenge, AFR100, and LDN commitments and targets to reverse degradations
Ecosystem and biodiversity management approaches under the Forest Landscape & Livelihoods programme:
- The rights-based approach to ecosystem management
- Models for the devolution of ecosystem management to communities
- Ecosystem governance
- Socio-ecological resilience
The programme collaborates with other themes within the regional programme specifically Drylands Resilience Land Management theme over building resilience to drought and floods, the Conservation Areas and Species theme over biodiversity restoration, protected areas and ICCAs, and with the Business & Biodiversity theme on livelihood links to economic valuation, value chains and community financing.
For more information, please contact:
Charles Karangwa, Country Representative Rwanda office / Regional Technical Coordinator – Forests, landscapes and Livelihoods Charles.KARANGWA@iucn.org
