Access to funding and technical assistance for forest and smallholder farm producers and enterprises to accelerate restoration-based value added innovation, with focus on Africa
The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) is a partnership between 34 African countries committed to restoring at least 100 million hectares of degraded land by 2030. To date, the participating countries have committed a total of 129.5 million hectares for restoration. The four-year programme described here will support the ambition of AFR100.
This four-year programme, led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and funded by the Government of Germany with a budget of EUR 40 million, will support the ambition of AFR100. It will help accelerate restoration and value-added innovation by providing local communities, including smallholder forest and farm producer organizations and Indigenous Peoples, with direct financial and technical assistance. It will strengthen the governance capacity of local communities and support them to increase their capacity to monitor and communicate restorations results and share lessons learnt.
It will also help create restoration-based businesses and green jobs, improve livelihoods and develop resilience to climate change in selected landscapes in AFR100 countries. The programme is a multi-partner effort in collaboration with AFR100. It comes amid growing global support for nature-based solutions to climate change and recognition of the need for action that enables local communities to contribute to restoration efforts. FAO is now seeking expressions of interest from organizations interested in collaborating on this programme. Organizations wishing to collaborate should contact afr-100-programme@fao.org.
