Partners

Founding partners

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) serves as lead agency for TRI, providing programmatic coordination, integration, and harmonisation of work across the 11 partnering country projects, agencies, and partners. IUCN is also leading support for partnering countries in strengthening the enabling in-country policy environment for forest landscape restoration. IUCN is the implementing agency for four TRI national projects in Cameroon, China, Guinea-Bissau and Myanmar.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) leads support for partnering countries in the capture and dissemination of best practices on forest landscape restoration and in capacity building on a wide range of tools and topics integral to this subject. FAO is the implementing agency for five TRI national projects in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands, Pakistan, and Sao Tome and Principe.

United Nations Environment Programme, through their UN Environment Finance Initiative, a 25-year public–private collaboration with a network of more than 300 financial institutions, supports partnering countries through technical assistance and capital markets connections in efforts to mobilize and catalyse domestic and external funding for large-scale restoration. UNEP is the implementing agency for two TRI national projects in the Kenya Tana Delta and the United Republic of Tanzania.

Government and executing partners 

Additional partners

Bioversity International
Bioversity International provided technical support through the development of training modules and the facilitation of capacity development for national TRI project teams on forest genetic resources for forest landscape restoration during the second global TRI event in October 2019. Experts from Bioversity International also undertook support missions to both Sao Tome and Principe and the Central African Republic to identify capacity-building needs and formulate capacity development plans for improved integration of forest genetic resources into forest landscape restoration.

Newcastle University
Researchers at Newcastle University, UK, together with IUCN, are supporting development and piloting of the Species Threat Abatement and Recovery (STAR) metric – a new tool providing practitioners with enhanced information on the impacts of restoration actions on threatened biodiversity. The use of STAR is being piloted in five TRI projects: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Kenya (both projects) and Myanmar.

World Resources Institute
The World Resources Institute supported TRI national projects in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kenya by conducting assessments on restoration needs and opportunities using the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology.

Contact

For more information:
Adriana Vidal, IUCN TRI Programme Manager
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