The Engineers’ Association has established a generational mentoring model, including the Junior Engineer Program, to enhance regional scientific and technological awareness and ensure the long-term sustainability of agroforestry knowledge.

A network of community partnerships fostered to promote collective growth, with a focus on encouraging female entrepreneurship.

The regional public branding helps promote Lin'an's unique agricultural products via e-commerce platforms, build branded products, and enhance product value by setting group standards.

Communication, advocacy, public policies, research and teaching programs take in account the general phenomenon in view of the transformation of the dominant paradigms of development, growth, wealth, power and freedom embedded at political, economic, educational and cultural levels. Earth’s regeneration and mankind’s regeneration, as faces of the same coin, are addressed simultaneously, for their mutual support, in view of all dimensions of being in the world, as they combine, as donors and recipients, to induce the events (deficits/assets), cope with consequences (desired/undesired) and contribute for change (potential outputs): intimate, interactive, social and biophysical. In the socio-cultural learning niches, heuristic-hermeneutic experiences could generate awareness, interpretation and understanding beyond established stereotypes, from a thematic (“what” is at stake), an epistemic (“how” to understand and define the events) and a strategic (who, when, where) point of view. 

Based on the local natural resource conditions, Liziba Village vigorously develops economic forest industries such as walnuts and chestnuts, cultivates and processes tea, fungus, and edible mushrooms, cultivates traditional Chinese medicinal materials such as Tianma and Chonglou, and engages in beekeeping and chicken farming. Some farmers in Liziba Village spontaneously formed a tea cooperative, registered their own tea brand, and built an online trading platform through e-commerce, promoting the vigorous development of the green economy.  Targeted training was provided to village level management and maintenance personnel on fund management, mountain patrol and maintenance, responsibility implementation, safety education, etc., to enhance the villagers' ability and level of independent management and maintenance.                                                                                                 

The forest resource conservation in Liziba faces many challenges in various aspects, which hinder the active participation of local residents in the protection of natural resources and the sustainability of the environment. These challenges include illegal logging, theft of timber, illegal purchase of wood, poaching of wild animals, and deforestation for farming. In addition, traditional living habits that rely entirely on forest resources, such as building houses and meeting basic needs like heating and cooking, also cause destruction to forest resources and ecosystems.

This programme aims to go beyond traditional habitat restoration and will work to establish entirely new woodlands across eligible sites totalling at least 1,755 hectares. Aviva’s £38m donation is allowing local Wildlife Trusts to purchase, or long-term lease available land, and then establish rainforest and manage that land in perpetuity. Local Wildlife Trusts are leading on their own sites and projects, with direct support from the programme team operating from the central charity, the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, and input from their communities. New sites will be seen as a win for conservation and as important hubs for collaboration with local communities including educational opportunities. Local Wildlife Trusts will actively involve communities through planting days, volunteering opportunities, drop-in sessions, and guided walks. 

This programme uses the Woodland Carbon Code (WCC) to validate the carbon credits generated. The WCC is a voluntary code which encourages consistency within woodland creation and carbon projects, while offering transparency to customers too. The process of validation and verification means any woodlands included in the scheme are certified to be sustainably managed according to national standards. This provides reliable, calculated estimates of the amount of carbon that will be sequestered as a direct result of planting new trees. This concept of additionality is vital. To gain carbon credits, it must be clear that all sequestered carbon is a result of new efforts, which would not have come about without the project. Projects involved must also have a long-term management plan and maintain verification for their whole duration. As part of our partnership, all carbon credits established by the planting of temperate rainforest are allocated to Aviva, helping to deliver their net zero ambitions. The credits are only passed to Aviva once they are realised as Woodland Carbon Units. Aviva then immediately retires the units preventing any possibility of secondary trading. By not using Pending Issuance Units (PIUs), this programme ensures the highest standards of transparency and legitimacy. This is important as the restoration of temperate rainforest is a new idea and predictions of carbon returns may differ substantially from the actual units created. Nevertheless, modelling through the WCC contains large risk buffers so we expect actual returns to exceed those predicted. This programme is aligned to the ‘Nature Markets Principles’ guidelines, produced in 2023 by environmental NGOs and investors, to assist with policy development and the creation of high-quality natural capital markets. This is the first use of this code in the creation of temperate rainforest, so we are working closely with the people behind the code to better understand the carbon value of these forests.  

Several actions were implemented through the Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve, and specifically through its sub-councils that represent the local governments and surrounding communities in the Independencia and Bahoruco provinces of the Dominican Republic.

• Activities to increase awareness of the area and its importance to leaders and key community members
• Information material about the PA (posters, murals, infographics) prepared and distributed in key places (schools, churches, public centers, local public, private organizations and society) 
• Training for local guides, to bolster ecotourism activities and alternative livelihoods
   
  
   

The final product's value is created through sustainable development goals. It is essential this message is passed on to the customer through the acquisition of the product, whether it be furniture, a bracelet or ball pen.