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The Restoration Initiative

Multi-country restoration programme that addresses barriers to large-scale ecosystem restoration through monitoring, local restoration economies, training, invasive-species control and policy support.

Problem

Weak protection and restoration outcomes, Land degradation and soil erosion

Place

Cameroon, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Pakistan, São Tomé and Príncipe and Tanzania

Organisations

International Union for Conservation of Nature

Method

Restoration enabling systems

Review state

EXTERNALLY VETTED

What the sources establish

1. The Restoration Initiative is recognised by the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration as a World Restoration Flagship.

   externally reviewed · strong · external review — UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration / Ecosystem Restoration Hub — The Restoration Initiative

   Limitation: UN/implementer-reported project information; not independently measured by 4PLANET.

   Limitation: World Restoration Flagship status is external review, not 4PLANET verification.

   Limitation: Area under restoration and other programme metrics are source-reported and are not silently converted into ecological outcome.

2. The UN profile reports 318,845 hectares under restoration and a 483,245 hectare restoration goal for 2030.

   source checked · source reported · reported not independently verified — UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration / Ecosystem Restoration Hub — The Restoration Initiative

   Limitation: UN/implementer-reported project information; not independently measured by 4PLANET.

   Limitation: World Restoration Flagship status is external review, not 4PLANET verification.

   Limitation: Area under restoration and other programme metrics are source-reported and are not silently converted into ecological outcome.

What this record does not establish

4PLANET has not reviewed this project under its own method. No 4PLANET partnership, funding or verified ecological outcome is recorded.

Sources

• decadeonrestoration.org

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