This document outlines El Salvador's National Landscape and Ecosystem Restoration Program. The program aims to (1) restore and conserve biodiversity and forest ecosystems to build resilience to climate change, (2) restore degraded lands and increase sustainable agricultural productivity, and (3) ensure water supply, reduce soil degradation, and enhance livelihoods. The program will implement participatory analysis, identify and prioritize restoration sites, and prepare local restoration and monitoring plans. It involves alliances with various organizations and will transition land uses to more sustainable agroforestry, silvopastoral, and other systems. Progress will be monitored using a Landscape Sustainability Index across several factors.

1. Restore and Conserve Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems and build
greater resilience to the effects of Climate Change
Reduce the country's vulnerability associated with forest degradation
and tree cover loss in critical areas.
Restore degraded lands and increase agricultural productivity in a
sustainable way.
Ensure water supply; reduce soil degradation; enhance livelihoods;
reduce flooding risks
Integrates into National Action Plan for reduction of GHG Emissions
related with Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) (El
Salvador NDC UNFCCC; AICHI Targets CBD; LDN UNCCD; SDG 15)
Our Agenda includes
AICHI Targets
Strategic Plan CBD
Paris Agreement
NDC - UNFCCC

2. Restore and Conserve
critical ecosystems through
socially inclusive processes
Restore highly degraded
lands, through establishing a
climate resilient agriculture
and biodiversity-friendly agro-
forestry system
Establish a more synergic
integration of physical and
natural infrastructure.
National Landscape and Ecosystem Restoration Program

3. Implementation Methodology
PARTICIPATORY ANALYSIS OF VULNERABILITY AND
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN THE LANDSCAPE
ALLIANCES FOR
IMPLEMENTATION
IDENTIFICATION OF RESTORATION SITES BASED ON
INFORMATION AND PRIORITIZED RESTORATION TECHNIQUES
-Municipalities, Farmer
Associations, ADESCO’s,
CONSAA, Municipality
Associations, Committees,
NGO FIAES, GIZ
-Letter of Agreements and
Joint implementations
PREPARATION OF LOCAL RESTORATION PLANS TO
ADRESS DRIVERS AND MONITORING PLANS

5. Financial and Economic Analysis
Margial - Net Present Value

6. Type of transition on Restoration Program
1. Maize and Beans crops to Agroforestry Systems
(Intercropping beans/maize)
2. Pasture to silvopastoral system
3. Mosaic of crops and pasture to agro-silvopastoral system
4. Mosaic of crops, pastures and vegetation <900 m.s.n.m. to
Agroforestry systems of cocoa (1)
5. Sugarcane with burning practice towards the green harvest
(Zafra)
6. Coffee Growing <800 m.a.s.l. towards Cocoa agroforestry
systems
7. Coffee Growing <800 m.a.s.l. towards a low height coffee
renovation
8. Coffee Growing 800 - 1200 m.a.s.l. towards renovate Coffee
medium height plantation
9. Coffee Growing > 1200 m.a.s.l. towards renovate Coffee
height plantation
10. Mosaic of Crops towards Riparian Forest
11. Degraded Mangrove towards Restored Mangrove

8. http://apps2.marn.gob.sv/geocumplimiento/restauracion/mapa.php
Restoration actions Monitoring System
National Landscape and Ecosystem Restoration Program

9. Landscape
Sustainability
Index
Biodiversity
Water Quality
Water Flow
GovernanceCarbon in Soil
Biomass
Carbon
Employment
Landscape Sustainaibility
Index El Salvador

10. Landscape sustainability index
Landscape
biodiversity index
Water Sustainability index
Carbon index
Soil recovery index
Jobs index
Landscape Governance index