Strengthening Multi-sectoral Management of Critical Landscapes

To strengthen local capacities, incentives and actions for integrated landscape management in order to reduce land degradation and greenhouse gas emissions and promote nature conservation whilst enhancing sustainable local livelihoods;Critical landscapes of over 160,000 ha under integrated SLM management by local communities, where indices of ecosystem health, diversity and condition remain the same as baseline or improve and is mainstreamed into local development plans (forest and tree cover; maintenance of wetlands; no net increase of agricultural land under mono cropping)• Area under vegetative cover increased 24,430 (with average tree density of 111 trees/ ha)• 128000 ha of forest cover (under effective management – including no net loss due to land use conversion• 5000 households’ incomes increase by 10% on average by project end through increased land productivity • Avoided emission of 689333 CO2-eq for 4 years and sequestration of store additionally 10,755 tCO2eq.