Large-scale landscape climate resilience initiative

World Vision works closely with local and national governments to evaluate and select the appropriate locations. The collaboration involves joint field assessments, identifying stakeholders and securing their engagement to ensure that restoration efforts align with the local priorities and capacities. Monitoring and evaluation plans are also put into place to assess the effectiveness of restoration activities and impact on the local community.

In partnership with national and international specialists, World Vision facilitates the use of latest technology to co-develop watershed action plans with local communities. These plans include a range of physical and biological infrastructures designed to minimise flooding and maximise water infiltration and storage in the landscape for productive purposes. 

World Vision works with national and international technical specialists and local community experts to identify soil conservation (e.g. retention ponds and wells), assess dams and monitor soil erosion and water conservation measures. Groundwater monitoring assists local communities to evaluate their water-buffering efforts.

World Vision focuses on co-developing afforestation initiatives with local communities designed to rapidly re-establish and replenish vegetative cover to protect existing soil resources and further improve water infiltration. Measures include farmer managed natural regeneration, native trees seeding or planting, and seeking opportunities for permaculture, and agroforestry to support income generation.

World Vision’s flagship restoration approach, Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), has been introduced in 29 countries with evidence of organic adoption and spread across more than 18 million hectares. Regreening and FMNR can be integrated into broad resilience programmes in fragile contexts including cash for work programming, and conflict prevention and peacebuilding programming​. Coupled with our nutrition sensitive agriculture programming and climate smart agricultural support work, World Vision has the tools to build food secure and resilient communities and landscapes.

World Vision technical specialists work with landowners and communities to assess local soil type and existing practices to build collaboratively farmer led regeneration plans, foster community participation, and enable local by-laws to establish sustainable practices, particularly in relation to fuelwood collection, grazing or fire management, within locally enforced limits.

World Vision partners extensively with local and national governments and with local and international NGOs, local community-based organisations and members of the domestic and international private sector. Working within these multi-stakeholder partnerships ensure our projects are able to deliver sustainable solutions.

World Vision utilises grant funding to unlock access to private funding, seeks private finance through carbon credits and mobilises finance and insurance for ecosystem services. We also enable loans and insurance to farmers, mobilise investment from downstream ecosystem service beneficiaries and create alternative livelihood options and supporting local supply chains.

World Vision implements value chain programming that fosters virtuous circles by integrating sustainable practices, enhancing resource efficiency, ecosystem and livelihood resilience. This approach restores landscapes and bolsters livelihoods by creating stable, sustainable economic opportunities. The virtuous circle is reinforced as value chain interventions and processing support enables high-quality products enter international markets, promoting long-term environmental and socioeconomic health.