Projects

In aiming to strengthen legal frameworks in the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and empower Indigenous Peoples to protect and manage their forest landscapes, this project assesses legal gaps and supports Indigenous Peoples to document customary land use, strengthen community governance and advocate for reforms in land, resource, climate and biodiversity policy.

Forest owners and nearby communities in Viet Nam’s natural forest environments, are developing innovative and evidence-based sustainable forest management methods. This project focuses on support for community researchers in their use of bioacoustics and local leadership for enhancing livelihoods while conserving and restoring natural forests.

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.

Smallholder farmers in the Bac Ha district of northern Vietnam are reversing the degradation of their land and improving their livelihoods. This project is supporting agroforestry practices to improve the soil and control erosion and developing new income sources for farmers, thereby reducing pressures on natural resources and promoting climate change resilience.

This project addresses unsustainable agriculture practices that lead to environmental degradation and biodiversity loss in Myanmar and Viet Nam. Through a research-to-action approach, stakeholders are exploring the drivers of degradation, engaging in transparent policy dialogues, and developing inclusive diversified crop enterprises and restoration practices in forest-farm landscapes.

Facilitating locally-led research, communications and multi-stakeholder dialogue spaces for good governance and restoration actions within a Southern Kenya-Northern Tanzania transboundary wildlife movement corridor

Extended periods of drought in northwest Namibia have caused substantial declines in wildlife and livestock, threatening local livelihoods. This project focuses on local knowledge and spatial data to help understand factors affecting wildlife populations. The results will inform strategies aimed at helping wildlife and livelihoods recover after droughts, which can be supported by the Legacy Landscape Fund and others.

In the Aklan River Watershed Forest Reserve in the Philippines, conflicting development plans and unsustainable practices threaten ecological integrity. In this project, local citizen science will address these threats by establishing safeguards for watershed conservation, inclusive governance of protected areas, and community-led nature-based solutions.

To address environmental degradation in Tanzania, this initiative is implementing a locally-led credit-based mechanism which creates an incentive for smallholder farmers to develop agrobiodiversity. Local stakeholders lead the way in action research that is designing and testing this credit system for sustainable resource use with agricultural productivity.

To address the decline of long-fallow swidden agriculture and agroforestry in Tanzania, this project combines research and action to restore these approaches in management of coastal forest areas. Farmer-led research, institutional capacity-building, and developing business opportunities based on ecosystem services will be combined to provide new sustainable land management options for small-scale farmers.

Responding to mangrove deforestation in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta, this project focuses on community-led research to explore and implement ways to protect and govern mangroves better, leading to improved climate resilience and increased economic opportunities.

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.

To restore forests and enhance biodiversity in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts, this project is expanding proven models of restoration in a mosaic of land use types at landscape level through locally-led planning, implementation and monitoring.

Community-led research in the Huye and Gisagara districts of Rwanda is evaluating the effectiveness of country-wide climate strategies and policies. The findings from this work are being used by smallholder communities in their development of agroforestry and natural regeneration and in their approaches to policy engagement for locally-led action to reverse environmental degradation.t

Communities in Zimbabwe are exploring the benefits of an innovative approach called "Farming with Alternative Pollinators". The project supports smallholder farmers to bring back greater diversity and increased population of pollinators in their farms with proven benefits for crop productivity and resilience while promoting ecosystem restoration.

Indigenous Peoples' organisations are supporting communities to strengthen their traditional knowledge and natural resource management and achieve inclusive local governance. Action research is generating evidence that can influence policymakers about the value of Indigenous knowledge in developing alternative approaches to environmental management, local livelihoods and climate action.

Tanzania's Southern Highlands and Northern Arid regions are facing threats from unsustainable use of the land. This initiative is supporting local farmer and pastoralist organisations to lead research, employ restorative practices, and overcome implementation barriers to environmental sustainability and increased productivity.

Rising refugee numbers in Uganda has contributed to land and vegetation degradation, loss of livelihoods and health challenges, which exacerbate climate change impacts. In this project, refugee and host communities adopt a research-to-action approach to design, pilot and promote solutions for biodiversity conservation, enhanced food security, inclusivity, and improved livelihoods.

Indigenous Peoples are gaining more control over their ecosystems, helping to restore ecological and cultural services in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Western Ghats. This community-based ecological restoration project provides communities with support and scientific tools for mapping and removing invasive species, and planting native ones.

Agroecological practices and Indigenous knowledge are being brought to the fore in a wetland stewardship programme that addresses biodiversity loss in the Gulshan-Baridhara Lake urban area in Bangladesh. The project aims to help achieve this locally-led stewardship through participatory wetland assessments, co-creation of restoration and management tools, and the development of green entrepreneurship.

This project supports Indigenous young women in West Kalimantan to become leaders in environmental stewardship. Through leadership training, community-based environmental projects and an emphasis on traditional knowledge, they are enhancing gender equality and climate and ecological resilience in three regions where young women are often underrepresented.