Program Pillars

Pillar 1: Strengthening Forest and Landscape Management
Pillar 1:
Strengthening Forest and Landscape Management

PROGREEN is working to increase the use of integrated landscape management to improve livelihoods, support economic development, and maintain and restore ecosystem services.

Activities supported under this Pillar will:

  • promote sustainable land and natural resource management practices
  • restore land to improve ecosystem services
  • protect ecosystems that have a high conservation value
  • advance forest tenure security
  • improve livelihoods
  • strengthen management of protected areas
  • encourage nature-based tourism
  • engage indigenous peoples and local communities
Pillar 2: Promoting Sustainable Landscape Practices
Pillar 2:
Promoting Sustainable Landscape Practices

PROGREEN is working to reduce agricultural land conversion through improved management of agriculture lands.

Activities under this Pillar will:

  • increase sustainable food production
  • restore degraded landscapes for conservation and production
  • slow biodiversity loss
  • increase habitat for wildlife in agriculture landscapes
  • help farmers meet responsible commodity value chain sourcing and quality requirements
  • promote climate-smart agriculture techniques, agroforestry approaches, and sustainable pasture management practices
Pillar 3: Supporting Cross-sectoral Landscape Solutions
Pillar 3:
Supporting Cross-sectoral Landscape Solutions

PROGREEN aims to reduce land-use change driven by sectors such as infrastructure, mining, and transport through activities that:

  • improve methods and approaches for reducing the impact from other sectors on forests and for restoring areas degraded by those sectors
  • develop tools for spatial land use planning and development, including socio-economic cost benefit analysis
  • facilitate participatory landscape planning across sectors
  • promote the design of green large-scale infrastructure and the establishment of green infrastructure networks