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 project has successfully established the central support structures, a monitoring framework, communication-, knowledge management-, and financial strategies required to support Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) in the partner countries.
The FLR Hub was showcased at COP30 (18 Nov 2025), Restoration Day at the WWF panda Pavilion, increasing the Hub's visibility and engagement with international stakeholders.
A partnership between the FLR Hub and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) was established to expand implementation and restoration efforts in Southeast Africa (including Mozambique and Madagascar) and set up a dedicated South American knowledge platform. Switzerland provided a CHF 5.2 million to scale up ecosystem restoration, support local livelihoods, and build climate resilience in Africa and South America beyond the scope of the IKI project
The FLR Implementation Hub continues to support the partner countries in translating climate and biodiversity commitments into practical restoration action.

The project advanced restoration planning, partnerships, finance, and monitoring.
The cooperation with São Paulo State supported restoration diagnostics and planning in the priority landscapes.
A study on domestic public finance for Atlantic Forest restoration was completed and submitted for review.
The “Courageous Land Partnership” was signed in May to pilot a Mantiqueira Restoration Hub and engage investors and commodity buyers.
Work also progressed on the Brazilian Restoration Observatory, supporting improved monitoring and evidence-based restoration.

A launch workshop brought together more than 30 restoration experts from the Central Andes, Caribbean, and Heart of the Amazon–Orinoquía Transition Zone to identify collaboration opportunities. The project supported the National Advisory Committee on Restoration and contributed to the update of the national restoration plan.

The FLR Hub’s official launch brought together more than 40 representatives from government, civil society, the private sector, academia, and Indigenous Peoples. Participants validated the Year 1 workplan and priorities.
Work is advancing on governance, restoration monitoring, public investment and incentive mechanisms in Madre de Dios and San Martín.
The FLR Hub co-organised the National Restoration Conference and a workshop on restoration incentives.

The Hub was launched through national and regional workshops in Antananarivo and Ambilobe, helping to revitalise national and regional FLR committees.
In the Diana region, earlier Restoration Opportunity Assessment Methodology (ROAM) work was reactivated to update land-use planning and focus implementation on the Mahavavy watershed, supported by Village Land Use Action Plans.
A baseline assessment aligned with the Restoration Barometer and national monitoring systems was launched in April 2026.

At the FLR Hub launch, Tanzania agreed to contribute 40,000 ha toward the project’s overall 200,000 ha restoration target.
Work began on policy and legislative frameworks, productive FLR commodities, enterprise development and links to financial institutions.
A regional workshop in Dar es Salaam brought together nine African countries to exchange experiences on restoration finance, monitoring, sustainable livelihoods, policy support and implementation of the AFR100 initiative, and the Bonn Challenge.

Key government stakeholders attended the project launch, including the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Water and Environment. The launch established the basis for coordinated implementation of FLR activities and strengthened national ownership of restoration efforts.

Latest Update:
09/2026