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Reversing Environmental Degradation in Africa and Asia (REDAA) is a programme that supports research and action in sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia by offering grants and facilitating mutual learning between partners.

Funded initiatives are locally led, interdisciplinary, and focused on solutions for ecosystem restoration and climate resilience, enabling people and nature to thrive.

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Forest landscape restoration: in conversation with Lila Nath Sharma

Lila Nath Sharma is the team leader of the biodiversity and restoration team at ForestAction Nepal. He leads the REDAA-funded project on ‘Promoting ecologically sound and socially just forest landscape restoration through co-production of knowledge and local capacity building’.

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The REDAA Community meets in Nairobi for first in-person learning event

Members of the REDAA Community recently gathered in Nairobi for the first in-person event since the launch of the programme’s community of practice in May 2024. Bringing together 39 participants from 21 projects and 17 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, the event was filled with activities designed to spark knowledge exchange and cooperation.

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Reorienting forest restoration with local knowledge and inclusion in Nepal

In some places in the Nepalese Himalayas, forest degradation and biodiversity loss persist because of restoration policies and carbon management practices that prioritise monocrops. This project combines ecological data and traditional knowledge to help co-develop ecologically sound and inclusive strategies for restoration while strengthening the capacities and decision-making power of local people working on restoration.

A person walks beside an ox-drawn cart in a dusty, barren field with dry vegetation under a clear sky, with distant hills in the background..

Community-based research and action for sustainable land use in the Ethiopian Rift Valley

Community-based action plans and sustainable land management interventions are co-developed to address land degradation and improve livelihoods in the Ethiopian Rift Valley. This includes land degradation assessments, locally-led participatory approaches, gender-sensitive and low-cost site-specific business models, and local capacity strengthening.

Forest landscape restoration: in conversation with Lila Nath Sharma

The REDAA Community meets in Nairobi for first in-person learning event

Reorienting forest restoration with local knowledge and inclusion in Nepal

Community-based research and action for sustainable land use in the Ethiopian Rift Valley

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