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RESTORING ECOSYSTEMS

LEGAL, POLICY, AND GOVERNANCE ASPECTS

Level: Intermediate | Estimated completion time: 2 hours | Certificate upon completion

Skills: Assessing enabling conditions for restoration, analyzing legal and policy frameworks, navigating land tenure challenges, strengthening inclusive governance, building stakeholder support for restoration

Looking to deepen your impact in restoration? This journey explores the legal, policy, and governance foundations that shape restoration success. You’ll learn how to assess enabling conditions, navigate tenure challenges, and strengthen the systems that turn restoration plans into lasting results.

Task 1: Are your institutional, policy, and legal frameworks
working for restoration?
Task 2: How do policy, legal, institutional, and governance frameworks work together?
Task 3: What do the policy, legal, and governance lenses reveal?
Task 4: What tools can help you diagnose your context
Stop and check 1
Task 5: What is land tenure and why does it matter for restoration?
Task 6: What are the principles of responsible tenure governance?
Task 7: Embedding GESI in legal and governance frameworks
Task 8: How can the LTPR matrix help you navigate tenure challenges?
Task 9: How do you adjust the LTPR matrix to fit your context?
Task 10: What tools are available to support tenure governance?
Task 11: How do you balance tenure reforms with restoration action?
Stop and check 2
Task 12: Building stakeholder support
Task 13: Designing and evaluating a participatory process
Task 14: What tools can help you build support and move forward?
Final test
Certificate of completion

Additional Resources

Website
United Nations Decade on Restoration (UN)
This is a global UN initiative catalysing large-scale ecosystem restoration for people, nature and climate from 2021–2030.
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Website
Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FAO)
This page presents principles, standards and best practices for effective restoration.
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Report
Principles for Ecosystem Restoration to Guide the United Nations Decade 2021–2030 (UNEP)
This document presents ten best-practice principles setting the foundation for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration strategy.
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Report
Standards of Practice to Guide Ecosystem Restoration – Summary Report (FAO, SER & IUCN CEM)
This document is a summary of 300+ recommendations applying the ten restoration principles across ecosystems and restoration phases.
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Website
Ecosystem Restoration Overview (UNEP)
This page outlines what ecosystem restoration means, its benefits, and considerations for successful application.
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Publication
Restoring Mountain Ecosystems (UNEP)
This publication presents case studies and recommendations for applying UN Decade principles in mountain ecosystem restoration.
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Press release
10 Pioneering Initiatives That Are Restoring the Natural World (UNEP)
This document profiles pioneering restoration initiatives embodying the principles of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
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Report
Ecosystem Restoration Playbook (UNEP, FAO)
This publication offers practical tips for individuals and communities looking to start restoration.
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Report
Assessment Report on Degradation and Restoration (IPBES)
This publication is an authoritative analysis of land degradation drivers, status, and policy options worldwide.
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