The FLRM has supported work in several countries focusing on:

• governance, institutional support and enabling environments;
• preparing national forest and landscape restoration plans;
• sustainable financing of FLR; and
• pilot actions focused on the implementation of innovative models.

At the regional and sub-regional level, the FLRM plays a leading role in facilitating FLR through major initiatives in Africa, Latin America, the Asia-Pacific and the Mediterranean region. These efforts flourish with the support of key partners involved in the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the World Research Institute and the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

• In Africa, the FLRM is involved with the Bonn Challenge decentralized process titled the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), which aims to bring 100 million hectares (ha) of degraded forest landscapes into the process of restoration by 2030. In partnership with the Regional Office in Accra, the FLRM is providing direct support with financial resources and the provision of targeted technical assistance, focusing on monitoring frameworks, resource mobilization efforts and capacity-building workshops. The Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative, implemented across 22 countries, is one of Africa’s large-scale efforts to which the FLRM is contributing to reverse land degradation and desertification in the Sahel and Sahara, boost food security and support climate change adaptation.
  
• As a highlight of the FLRM’s work in the Asia-Pacific, the Regional strategy and action plan for forest and landscape restoration in Asia-Pacific was approved in October 2017 during a session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission held in Colombo, Sri-Lanka. The mission of this publication is to mobilize finances for FLR, to strengthen stakeholder engagement and FLR sustainability, and to enhance learning and collaboration on FLR. In partnership with the Regional Office in Bangkok and the Subregional Office in Apia, the FLRM is providing direct financial support to the implementation of this strategy and action plan.
  
• In the Mediterranean region, the FLRM coordinates Mediterranean-based FLR in support of the Agadir Commitment in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Committee of Mediterranean Forestry Questions - Silva Mediterranea, a statutory body of FAO that inserts Mediterranean forest questions into a participatory process as a catalyst for their management. Silva Mediterranea oversees five working groups on forest fires; cork oak and non-timber forest products; forest genetic resources; urban and peri-urban forestry; and desertification and restoration in Mediterranean drylands. The Mediterranean Youth Task Force (MYTF) is the youth branch of Silva Mediterranea. It is a self-led youth network based on a participatory structure and coordinated by a Direction Board. Moreover, Silva Mediterranea and its partners are committed to organizing a Mediterranean Forest Week every two years as a common regional platform for cooperation on Mediterranean forests.

These initiatives aim to facilitate the implementation of national commitments by improving:

• knowledge sharing on good practices;
• financial resources mobilization;
• capacity development; and
• FLR monitoring.

At the global level, the FLRM supports the implementation of FLR through knowledge management, communication and outreach, capacity development, monitoring, resource mobilization and multi-partner initiatives. The FLRM team establishes restorative baselines and verification with the development of guidelines and standards for FLR projects. Regarding financial resource mobilization, the FLRM facilitates proposal developments, private sector investments and more for sustainable impacts. To advance global understanding and standards in restoration, the team consistently disseminates knowledge through existing networks and initiatives.

The activities of the FLRM are achieved through intersectoral collaboration with major FLR initiatives. The team co-leads the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030 Task Force on Best Practices with the United Nations Environment Programme to develop the knowledge component of the UN Decade and disseminate good practices for restoration in all ecosystems. The FLRM is also a facilitator of The Economics of Ecosystem Restoration multi-partner initiative to collect standardized data on the costs and benefits of ecosystem restoration. As an active member of the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration, the team plays an integral role in global restoration and knowledge sharing with a focus on the poorest and most highly degraded countries.

The FLRM contributes to the global discourse on FLR by communicating its successes and knowledge with a wide range of tools. For instance, the FLRM newsletter – available in English, French and Spanish – provides thousands of readers with regular updates in news and events relevant to the FLRM’s work. The team also produces publications, e-learning courses and webinars to empower practitioners with valuable expertise. Furthermore, the FLRM facilitates vibrant online Communities of Practice to support experience-sharing and inspire innovative projects.

The FLRM contributes to several initiatives in collaboration with other members of the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration:

• capacity development for ecosystem restoration co-organized with the Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat;
• capitalization of knowledge through the FLR knowledge platform and communities of practice;
• FLR finance; and
• monitoring of FLR, including facilitating the implementation of the collaborative roadmap on FLR monitoring.

FLR contributes significantly to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and achievement of its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Because of its comprehensive landscape approach, FLR work crosses sectors and, in so doing, achieves a wide range of forest- and land-related goals and targets, directly addressing SDG 15 (Life on Land). It also plays an essential role in sustaining ecosystem functioning and therefore, in the healthy provision of a wide range of ecosystem services. Further, FLR contributes to improving livelihoods, boosting food security, and helping people adapt to climate change, as well as to achieving the SDGs related to water, energy, employment, and economic growth. The FLR approach is therefore fully consistent with, and supportive of, the balanced cross-sectoral integration that is an inherent part of the SDGs.