This document summarizes a training on Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR). FLR is a process that aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance human well-being in deforested or degraded landscapes. The training covers the principles and phases of FLR projects, including conceptualization, design, implementation, governance, and technical aspects. It is intended to build the capacity of facilitators and utilizes a modular approach covering topics such as stakeholder engagement, clarifying land rights, setting goals and objectives, restoration strategies, and landscape unit planning. The training resource draws from a practitioner's guide on implementing FLR projects published by IUFRO.

1. Forest Landscape Restoration Training
“Creating a critical mass of FLR facilitators”
Michael Kleine
Global Landscapes Forum 2019
Bonn, Germany 22-23 June 2019

2. FLR:
A planned process that aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance
human well-being in deforested or degraded landscapes.
Principles of a landscape approach
• Continual Learning and Adaptive Management
• Common Concern Entry-Point
• Multiple Scale
• Multi-Functionality
• Multi-Stakeholder
• Negotiated and Transparent Change Logic
• Clarification of Rights and Responsibilities
• Participatory and User-Friendly Monitoring
• Resilience
• Strengthened Stakeholder Capability

3. Project Identification / Concept Phase
FLR Implementation at Local Level
Project Cycle Management
Initial
FLR
Ideas
FLR
Objectives
FLR
Global
Policy
Goals
FLR
Project
Plans
Project Implementation Phases
FLR
Results
achieved
Current
Landscape
Future
Landscape

4. inform
FLR Implementation at Local Level
Zooming into the project process
steer
motivate
plan
control
set
objectives
decideorganise
inform
Restoration
activities

5. Module 1: Getting (an FLR project) started
FLR Phase Contents
1. Visioning What is FLR in a given country context
2. Conceptualizing Prioritize landscapes, identify ecological & social goals
3. Designing Turn goals into objectives, baselines & targets
4. Implementing Implementation & monitoring plans: what, where, when, by whom, how much

6. Module 2: Governance of FLR
1) Identify & engage stakeholders
2) Understand
stakeholders’
objectives & power
relations
3) Discussion of trade-offs &
negotiation of FLR and
compensation
Stakeholder EngagementLand ownership & tenure rights
1) Clarify land
ownership &
tenure rights
2) Apply principles of
Free Prior and
Informed Consent
4) Capacity building

7. Goal Objective Plan
Meaning Purpose of FLR project Accomplishment Activities that result in
accomplishment
Measure Not measurable/tangible Measurable Sequenced list of what,
where, when, by whom, at
what cost
Timeframe Long-term Short to mid-term Short to mid-term
FLR
Example
Restore degraded land
along river basin
20 m buffer along rivers Plant 100 ha of native
species along rivers in
Kigali provice by end of
2016 by local farmers
Identify clear goals & turn them into measurable objectives
Agreement among stakeholders on objectives; prioritize objectives in case of disagreements
Module 3: Designing a FLR Project

8. • Implementation specific for landscape units
• Restoration methods for forest functions
(hydrological, protection, biodiversity, carbon,
production)
• Restoration strategies (active/passive)
• Species choice/planting design
• Agriculture crops
• Landscape unit plan – overarching FLR plan
• Capacity building
Module 4: Technical aspects of FLR implementation
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9. "Implementing Forest
Landscape Restoration: a
practitioner’s guide" by
IUFRO
a modular training resource for facilitators with a
broad approach towards sustainable land
management
https://www.iufro.org/science/special/spdc/netw/flr/flr/pract-guide/