Catalyze support for Forest and Landscape Restoration
Members of the partnership work together to build support for FLR at all levels. This includes securing the interest of decision-makers and opinion-shapers from government, the private sector, civil society, the media and others. It also involves addressing the cross-cutting issues of great significance to FLR, such as climate change and food security, and promoting increased scope and support for FLR in international, regional and national policy frameworks.
Organization of workshops
During 2009, workshops were organised in Indonesia (April), Rwanda (June), Brazil (October) and again in Indonesia (December). During these workshops, the concept of FLR was introduced and discussed, experiences were exchanged, and initial guidelines were developed on how to implement FLR in practice. These guidelines can be found here.
The aims of the workshops are to:
- Increase shared participant understanding of FLR principles and experiences
- Share information about the tools available to support FLR, including the ITTO Guidelines for the restoration, management and rehabilitation of degraded and secondary tropical forests and the GPFLR online learning platform
- Demonstrate and ‘test’ the FLR approach (including making recommendations to the sites visited)
- Identify sites to participate in the GPFLR Learning Network
- Identify learning needs and contribute advice to the GPFLR learning network
Documents, presentations and other materials from the workshops can be found here.