Since the declaration of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (UN Decade), it has been focused on encouraging countries to move from commitments to effective actions on the ground. To that end, the UN Decade has set up regular calls for nominations of World Restoration Flagships, considered as the best or most promising examples of ecosystem restoration that reflect the Decade principles and therefore inspire others to undertake or accelerate effective ecosystem restoration.

To date, 17 Flagship initiatives have been awarded from which the FAO's Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM), in collaboration with partners and other FAO teams and divisions, supports upscaling of the following:

• Central America Dry Corridor (CADC),
• Great Green Wall (GGW),
• Restoring Mediterranean Forests,
• Small Island Developing States (SIDS),
• Living Indus,
• African Farmers Transforming Food Systems,
• Terai Arc Landscape,
• Regreening Africa