Integrated land restoration and sustainable management approach piloted on degraded, fragile savannas in RCI to continuously produce goods and services and create knowledge that contribute to improve local biodiversity, communities’ livelihoods & socio-economic well-being

To improve access to livelihood opportunities for vulnerable communities and management of natural resources in selected rural areas of Northern Mozambique

To restore priority ecosystems and promote sustainable landscape management in the Nyungwe-Ruhango Corridor.

Land degradation (LD) has been recognized as a serious and persistent problem in Sierra Leone, affecting agricultural productivity, livelihoods, and biodiversity. Despite a comprehensive legal frameworks and international commitments, degradation trends can still be observed and are accelerating in some areas, and Koinadugu and Falaba districts in particular have been identified as hotspots of land degradation in the government’s 2018 Land Degradation Neutrality report.

To accelerate and scale-up restoration of degraded ecosystem services and transform local economies and livelihoods towards sustainable and resilient agro-silvo-pastoral economies and ecosystems, building on existing and planned baseline investments.

The objective of the project is to scale innovative integrated approaches to ecosystem restoration and conservation to catalyze transformational shifts in three high value landscapes in Uzbekistan. The project is part of the GEF8 global Ecosystem Restoration Integrated Program. The four components proposed by this project have been designed within available GEF and co-financing framework to address the corresponding drivers of ecosystem degradation and biodiversity decline, which are driven by multiple drivers of unsustainable land use practices.

Restore and maintain the ecological integrity of protected areas and classified forests through the adoption of sustainable "best practices” in agro-sylvo-pastoral systems for the well-being of local populations.

The coordinated and adequately funded implementation of cost-effective approaches to landscape-scale ecosystem restoration in Madagascar leads to an improvement in ecosystem health, the delivery of environmental benefits, and the enhancement of rural livelihoods.
Indicated by:
Area of land and ecosystems under restoration (ha) (GEB Core Indicator 3)
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigated (CO2e) (GEB Core Indicator 6)
People benefiting from GEF-financed investments, disaggregated by sex (count) (GEB Core Indicator 11)

To contribute to landscape restoration by harnessing indigenous fruit and nut tree biodiversity to improve environment and ecosystem services, support food security and safety, and enhance livelihoods in Armenia

The project aims to improve biodiversity conservation and sustainable management of ecosystems and restoration of degraded drylands in Dedoplistskaro Biosphere Reserve (BR), located in the south-eastern part of Georgia, in Kakheti Region. The project area is part of the Caucasus Biodiversity Hotspot and harbours many endemic, rare and threatened species of flora and fauna.