The Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) Implementation Hub: Delivering the Bonn Challenge

Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) provides a crucial opportunity to support sustainable livelihoods for local communities and achieve climate change mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity benefits. Several restoration initiatives are underway, but progress on implementation and monitoring has been slow due to several barriers. The project contributes to the critical need to accelerate and scale up the implementation of FLR in the partner countries. By supporting the implementation of FLR the project will contribute to the sequestration of CO2 across targeted landscapes and the recovery of biodiversity in the long term. It also catalyses additional public and private funding to scaling up FLR activities.

Project data

Countries: Brazil, Colombia, Madagascar, Peru, Tanzania, Uganda
IKI funding: 18,858,421.00 €
Included preparation phase: 1,022,282.57 €
Duration: 12/2023 till 12/2030
Status: open
Implementing organisation: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) - Switzerland
Political Partner: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA) - Brazil

Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MinAmbiente) - Colombia

Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development - Madagascar

Ministry of Water and Environment - Uganda

National Forest and Wildlife Authority (SERFOR) - Peru

Vice President’s Office (VPO) - Tanzania
Implementing Partner: World Resources Institute (WRI)

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) International
Online: https://iucn.org/our-work/topic/forests/forest-landscape-restoration/flr-hub

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State of implementation/results

The second FLR Hub Steering Committee Meeting took place in Berlin on 10 and 11 September 2025.
In April 2025, the Initiative 20x20 held its Annual Partners Meeting in Puerto Varas, Chile. The event brought together over 150 partners from across the region, including government and technical partners from the three Latin American partner countries of the project. At the meeting, WRI, IUCN, and WWF highlighted the FLR Hub’s strategy and objectives and discussed potential opportunities for collaboration with members of the 20x20 network.
The country-specific work plans for the six partner countries have been finalized and include a series of activities, ranging from stakeholder mapping and the design of restoration plans to training for local and regional authorities in management and financing, and the consolidation of inter-institutional working groups for monitoring.
After a mini-launch event introducing the project in Peru, SERFOR officially announced its participation in the FLR Hub through a post on X.
During COP16, the Invest-Initiative was launched, formalizing strategic agreements to promote impact investments. The goal is to close the financing gap in conservation. WWF Colombia will further strengthen this initiative through the FLR Hub project to connect projects with triple impact (social, ecological, and financial) with investors and funds, and to promote sustainable solutions for biodiversity conservation and improving the quality of life of communities.

Latest Update:
12/2025