Community-based ecological mangrove restoration in action. Copyright Dominic Wodehouse.
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Community awareness, participation and stewardship
Historical and ecological background information collection
Site suitability assessment
Customized mangrove restoration
Long-term monitoring
![Women filling in bags for the mangrove nursery OPED](/sites/default/files/Photo4_Remplissage_des_sachets_par_les_femmes_pour_la_p%C3%A9pini%C3%A8re.jpg)
Women filling in bags for the mangrove nursery
OPED
Data collection and participatory identification of problems
Women capacity-building and exchange of experiences
Community management
Alternative livelihoods
![Reforestation Runa Foundation](/sites/default/files/moving_plants_1.jpg)
Reforestation
Runa Foundation
Strengthening Farmer Associations
Building Sustainable Value Chains Based In Local Biodiversity
![Coffee picking in biosphere reserve GIZ Ethiopia](/sites/default/files/coffee-picking3_0.jpg)
Coffee picking in biosphere reserve
GIZ Ethiopia
Cooperation between communities, private sector and development partners
Developing a wild coffee value chain
Developing a honey export value chain
Protection and sustainable management of forests
![Degraded rangeland Hausner Wendo](/sites/default/files/degraded_grassland.png)
Degraded rangeland
Hausner Wendo
Rangeland ecosystem (grazing land) restoration
Rangeland ecosystem management
Inter-community peace committee and peace meetings
Livelihood diversification
![Fishers representatives at a MIHARI forum MIHARI](/sites/default/files/mihari_fishers.jpg)
Fishers representatives at a MIHARI forum
MIHARI
Trustful relationship with the government
Implementation of the network structure
Fishers' leadership enhanced
![Tree plantation by the employees of Kolos Mauritius Kolos Mauritius](/sites/default/files/3_8.jpg)
Tree plantation by the employees of Kolos Mauritius
Kolos Mauritius
Reforestation activities by Non Governmental Organisations
Collaboration with Private sectors to enable sustainable financing
![Village Game Scout Patrols the forests of the Ntakata Mountains Carbon Tanzania](/sites/default/files/vgs_in_ntakata_mountains_forest.jpg)
Village Game Scout Patrols the forests of the Ntakata Mountains
Carbon Tanzania
Land Use plans including the delineation of Village Land Forest Reserves & Participatory land use management.
Collaboration with landscape partners including Village and District governments, TNC and Pathfinder International (Tuungane).
Legal contracts between resource owning communities and Carbon Tanzania
A results-based payments for conservation system measured and monitored using a REDD (avoided deforestation) project methodology.
Accessing the voluntary carbon market.
![Plastic waste threatening marine ecosystems Surfrider Foundation Europe](/sites/default/files/plastic_ocean_0.jpg)
Plastic waste threatening marine ecosystems
Surfrider Foundation Europe
![Guinea grass intercropped with fruit trees ICRAF, Le Thi Tam](/sites/default/files/guinea_grass_intercropped_with_fruit_trees._photo_icraf_le_thi_tam_0.jpg)
Guinea grass intercropped with fruit trees
ICRAF, Le Thi Tam
Partnerships with local partners
Building capacity of local partners
Ecosystem-based Adaptation and Climate-Smart Agricultural Measures
![Figure 1_a_Xinshe village landuse map NDHU, Landscape Conservation & Community Participation Laboratory](/sites/default/files/figure_1_a_xinshe_village_landuse_map.png)
Figure 1_a_Xinshe village landuse map
NDHU, Landscape Conservation & Community Participation Laboratory
![Consulta Municipio de San Marcos de Caiquín MAPANCE](/sites/default/files/caiquin_2_julio.jpg)
Consulta Municipio de San Marcos de Caiquín
MAPANCE
![PLCN confiscating chainsaws PLCN](/sites/default/files/picture1_6.jpg)
PLCN confiscating chainsaws
PLCN
Forest monitoring application
An innovative partnership
![Grasslands of Kunao Chaur Van Gujjar Tribal Yuva Sanghatan](/sites/default/files/kunao.jpg)
Grasslands of Kunao Chaur
Van Gujjar Tribal Yuva Sanghatan
Breed and Ecosystem conservation
Livelihood strategies
![Tahiry Honko Project community patrolers Louise Gardner-Blue Ventures](/sites/default/files/copie_de_tahiry_honko_-_monitoring_patrol_-_credit_louise_gardner-blue_ventures_03.jpg)
Tahiry Honko Project community patrolers
Louise Gardner-Blue Ventures
Participatory mapping for management
Participatory theory of change
Participatory Forest Management plan
Participatory monitoring
Mangrove reforestation by communities