FAO is organizing the International Workshop “Integrated territorial and landscape approaches for poverty reduction and sustainability: Innovation and challenges from country led implementation” from 10 to 12 December 2019 in FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy. The workshop aims at enabling the knowledge sharing amongst countries, from their own perspectives in implementing integrated approaches and with the vision for scaling them up. Discussions will center around their methodologies and tools, the identification of bottlenecks to implementation, methodologies for fostering innovation and scaling up, including in the context of decentralization processes, implementation of regional plans for rural development, climate change action or poverty reduction, or participatory processes for sustainable development and natural resource management. Finally, special emphasis will be on effective ways for engaging different stakeholders, including civil society organizations and local authorities and efforts for multisectoral coordination between ministries and private sector.

The specific objectives of the workshop include:

• Facilitate knowledge sharing and policy dialogue between countries from different regions implementing integrated landscape and territorial development approaches.
• Deepen understanding of integrated territorial and landscape approaches implementation by the participating countries and international partners.
• Identify institutional bottlenecks and pitfalls in the implementation.
• Identify enabling environment and institutional arrangements in the implementation of integrated territorial and landscape approaches to foster innovation.
• Increase national capacities to adopt these approaches, including through the mobilization of public and private resources.
• Foster closer collaboration and coordination across key partners at national and international levels.

The workshop is organized in the framework of the project “Strengthening country implementation of territorial development and landscape approaches for sustainable rural development and poverty reduction” with the goal of supporting countries to systematize their own experiences in the implementation of territorial and landscape approaches and foster South-South Cooperation amongst countries, including Dominican Republic, Colombia, Guatemala, Lebanon and Moldova, as well as with other country-led and developmental-partner led experiences.