PROGREEN is a Global Partnership for Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes with the objective to help maintain and improve ecosystem services in resilient production and conservation landscapes.  Specifically, PROGREEN provides countries with the finance, technical assistance, and knowledge needed to invest in and protect their forests and landscapes.
 
A Multi-Donor Trust Fund administered by the World Bank, PROGREEN champions integrated landscape management approaches that help communities balance environmental, economic, and social priorities and demands. These targeted investments promote nature-based solutions, like erosion control and more fertile soil; benefit people, including vulnerable groups and Indigenous Peoples; and lay the foundations for forest economies, where countries can rely on and sustainably manage their forest resources.

Amid overlapping challenges around nature loss, climate change, food insecurity, conflict, and health pandemics, the partnership also supports countries in meeting their global, regional, and national climate and nature goals.

PROGREEN promotes sustainable landscape management across a broad range of landscapes – from tropical forest biomes to desert landscapes, fertile grasslands in the Argentinian Pampas to mangrove belts in the Red Sea. Learn more about where PROGREEN works.

PROGREEN offers two types of financing programs:

Investment programs provide grants to co-finance larger World Bank Group investment operations in countries. These activities are implemented in countries where policy dialogue and engagements are already well advanced.

Knowledge programs finance World Bank Group teams in the development of analytical products, technical assistance, policy dialogue, and capacity building at the country or regional level. Knowledge programs may include forest and landscape assessment and planning activities, or reviews of policies and regulatory frameworks.

The global program complements country programs, by catalyzing innovative and novel approaches to advance integrated landscape management. Through its global program, PROGREEN supports global analytics and capacity building to complement and advance country engagements. This work focuses on priority topics for advancing global dialogue and understanding the issues around maintaining or improving ecosystem services of production or conservation landscapes.

The most urgent global challenges of today — poverty, climate change, nature loss, food insecurity, pandemics, conflict — require holistic solutions. Healthy forests and landscapes play an important role and hold the keys to a livable planet. Sign up to the PROGREEN newsletter and keep up to date on the partnership’s latest developments