A guide for deploying financial resources for FLR

The Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM) is organizing a workshop on "Financing mechanisms for local investment in forest and landscape restoration" from 13 to 14 July 2017 at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.

The international community is mobilizing energy and resources to achieve Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) at scale. It is estimated that USD 35 billion (per year) will be needed to meet the Bonn Challenge target and more than USD 300 billion per year must be invested to reach full land degradation neutrality. While there is substantial experience pertaining to sector-based financing instruments and products, finance mechanisms targeted explicitly at integrated restoration objectives are far less common. This is a relatively new investment space, and potential investors are learning how to engage in it. The challenge is to make sure that FLR happens on the ground in a sustainable and scalable way and that appropriate financial mechanisms are used to do so.

FAO and EcoAgriculture partners partners have embarked a study to better understand the financial mechanisms supporting effective FLR at local level. This studies includes the identification of different financing mechanisms, the development of case studies for each mechanism, and the analysis of how they can best work/support each other.

The objective of the workshop is to review the study, invite partners to contribute to the effort and discuss about its potential use to support FLR (e.g.training modules and e-learning courses, field cases and other resources to ensure widespread awareness and utilization of the concepts and lessons learned). This document is directed at investors (private, public and civic) as a framework for guiding discussions and thinking on how financing for FLR can be most effectively targeted.

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