An indispensable guide to launch your funding journey and create a meaningful impact, specifically crafted for practitioners and professionals. This guide delivers crucial tips and insights sourced from GLF’s dynamic community and Luxembourg partners. Featuring a compelling case study from the Taniala Regenerative Camp in Madagascar, a community-based solution providing ground-level insights to enrich your learning experience.

Tips from GLF’s community

• Dedicated fundraising staff: Learn how dedicating staff to fundraising efforts and improving financial disclosure can enhance your competitiveness in funding applications. Consider investing in staff training.
• Financial stability and resilience: Discover strategies for building financial stability, such as income-generating activities and diverse funding avenues. Explore the possibility of applying for awards/prizes as an alternative funding source.
• Team capacity building: Strengthen your team’s capacity to identify resources by learning about different types of funding instruments. Develop the skills to identify resources most relevant to your project, create a budget plan, and determine the ideal funding size and type for your organization.

Tips from GLF-Luxebourg partners

• Aligning with donor objectives: When researching financial support for a project, understand the donor’s intentionality. Tailor your project proposal to match the preferences of the specific donor. Engage in open discussions to co-design a project that resonates with the donor’s interests.
• Networking at events: discover the importance of attending events to network with potential donors and build relationships that can support your projects.

Get insights from the ground

Be inspired by the success story of Taniala Regenerative Camp, located in Madagascar’s Menabe Region, is dedicated to restoring degraded land. Despite language barriers and a small team, they received an award in 2023 and won the Lush Spring Prize for soil restoration.

Now, their focus is on securing funding for full-time operations, expanding their team’s language skills, and seeking grants and awards for infrastructure development and village base camps.

Download now our guide to embark on a path of financial empowerment and impactful restoration initiatives!

Also, visit the GLF-Luxembourg platform.

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• Forest-based adaptation is a versatile strategy to enhance climate resilience through various actions
• It can address gaps in climate adaptation, aligning with Sustainable Development Goals
• The paper outlines ten actionable principles to effectively utilize forests in adaptation, with real-world examples

Forests are key to climate resilience

Forest-based adaptation is an ensemble of climate actions that employ forests and trees in support of climate change adaptation and resilience, including sustainable forest management, forest conservation and restoration, reforestation and afforestation. Forest-based adaptation can help address the gaps between current adaptation actions and the adaptation needed for reducing climate-related risks and impacts, while contributing to most of the Sustainable Development Goals and promoting strong synergies with mitigation.

This FAO technical paper unpacks the concept of forest-based adaptation and describes policy spheres that could bolster the role of forests and trees in providing adaptation and resilience benefits. It introduces a set of ten principles for using forests and trees to promote transformational adaptation, which were developed with leading experts from the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and other partners. It describes the policy implications of each principle and draws on examples from diverse forest ecosystems and management practices to illustrate their application in practice.

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Ecosystem restoration on the ground

GLFx Porto-Novo in Benin, is part of the GLF’s Sahel Chapter Network, supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation (RBSG). GLFx Porto-Novo carries out activities with the local community and beyond.  From awareness-raising campaigns to training, advocacy, and radio programs, they are seeking to tackle challenges brought by climate change, while protecting their landscape.

Follow the change makers who are taking part in some of the reforestation and awareness campaigns against poaching, wood cutting, and other illegal extractive activities in Benin. Our tour guides invite local youth and women to join tree-planting activities and create advocacy for ecosystem restoration.

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You’re invited into the world of the Indigenous Nahua people, where anthropologist Luisa Paré and filmmaker Martin Boege and several Indigenous artisans share about their experience in restoring the forest and leaving water for future generations and existing biodiversity.

This documentary was produced in collaboration with the Indigenous artisans’ cooperative “Agua y Monte de Pajapan” based in the Santa Martha mountain range of southern Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico coast. Various groups in their region have planted thousands of trees in deforested areas – mostly on the slopes of a volcano. There, the springs that provide water for local villages are drying up because of historic deforestation, which occurred when cattle ranchers transformed much of the region’s rainforest into grasslands. Artisans and reforesters dream together that future generations will have reliable access to drinking water, thanks to their restoration and protection efforts. The mountains in this area are in the core zone of the Biosphere Reserve of Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz.

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IIntroducing the NYDF Assessment Partners and annual NYDF Progress Assessment
Charlotte Streck

GLF Katowice

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Contents

Foreword. Communities restoring landscapes: Stories of resilience and succes

Story 1. Holding back the desert: One farmer’s story of restoring degraded land in the Sahel region in Burkina Faso

Story 2. Women gaining ground through reforestation on the Cameroonian coast

Story 3. Building resilience to climate change through community forest restoration in Ghana

Story 4. Thinking in tomorrow: Women leading forest restoration in Mt Kenya and beyond

Story 5. Mikoko Pamoja: Carbon credits and community-based reforestation in Kenya’s mangroves

Story 6. Rights, responsibilities and collaboration: The Ogiek and tree growing in the Mau

Story 7. Restoring Madagascar’s mangroves: Community-led conservation makes for multiple benefits

Story 8. Flood recovery, livelihood protection and mangrove reforestation in the Limpopo River Estuary, Mozambique

Story 9. Regaining their lost paradise: Communities rehabilitating mangrove forests in the drought-affected Saloum Delta, Senegal

Story 10. From the grass roots to the corridors of power: Scaling up efforts for conservation and reforestation in Senegal

Story 11. Taming the rising tide: Keeping the ocean at bay through community reforestation on Kisiwa Panza island, Tanzania

Story 12. Shaking the tree: Challenging gender, tenure and leadership norms through collaborative reforestation in Central Uganda

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Infobrief series:

• Brief 1: Enhancing effectiveness of forest landscape programs through gender-responsive actions
• Brief 2: Role of capital in enhancing participation of women in commercial forestry: A case study of the Sawlog Production Grant Scheme (SPGS) project in Uganda
• Brief 3: The impacts of gender-conscious payment models on the status of women engaged in micro-forestry on the Kenyan coast
• Brief 4: Mobilizing indigenous and local knowledge for successful restoration
• Brief 5: Gender-responsive Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM): Engendering national forest landscape restoration assessments 
• Brief 6: Enhancing Women’s Participation in Forestry Management Using Adaptive Collaborative Management: The Case of Mbazzi Farmers Association, Mpigi District Uganda
• Brief 7: What women and men want: Considering gender for successful, sustainable land management programs: Lessons learned from the Nairobi Water Fund
• Brief 8: Understanding landscape restoration options in Kenya: Risks and opportunities for advancing gender equality
• Brief 9: Building farmer organisations’ capacity to collectively adopt agroforestry and sustainable agriculture land management practices in Lake Victoria Basin
• Brief 10: Gendering Climate Initiatives : REDD+ Impacts on Perceived Well-Being

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