Project Beneficiaries: Impacts Of A Multi-County Forest And Landscape Restoration Programme United In Support Of The Bonn Challenge
The Restoration Initiative (TRI)
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Abstract: This second brief in The Restoration Initiative?s (TRI) impact series presents social and governance outcomes from landscape restoration interventions implemented across ten countries in Africa and Asia?including Kenya. TRI?s work is guided by Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) and UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration principles, focusing on long-term environmental and social resilience. The brief documents how TRI projects have empowered local communities and Indigenous Peoples through inclusive governance, capacity building, and knowledge exchange platforms like Dimitra Clubs, agro-pastoralist field schools, and community nursery networks. Notably, the Kenya ASAL and Tana Delta projects surpassed their intended beneficiary targets, together reaching over 142,000 people. In total, TRI directly supported 422,497 individuals and established or strengthened 55 cross-sectoral mechanisms for restoration planning. The report also highlights gender-responsive practices and tailored restoration strategies for arid and degraded landscapes. Kenya's contribution is profiled through institutional coordination platforms and local committee strengthening that anchor FLR planning at landscape and county levels.