On December 11, Commonland, Aidenvironment, IDH, Wageningen University Research and Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation, part of WUR/Beagle are organizing a Knowledge Event focusing on landscape restoration. Restoring our degraded landscapes is essential to meet global goals and provide a sustainable future. But prevailing systemic barriers prevent efforts reaching the necessary scale. What are these barriers and what can we do to achieve the impact that is so urgently needed?

The knowledge session aims to create a deeper understanding of the different approaches to scale-up landscape restoration, gain insight in approaches applied on the ground and identify ways forward in the cases discussed. Participants will investigate the dynamics of scaling and how scaling should take place. Scaling will be explored from different angles, from scaling-out, to scaling-up and what scaling means for space, money and people and policy.

The event will be in an interactive open setting, and will bring the knowledge available in the network together around landscape restoration cases members are working on.

Cases

Therefore participants are warmly invited to bring their landscape restoration cases. Cases should be submitted submit by November 30 to  , making a short summary including:

What

• is the case about (goals, geography, key target groups, general approach)
• do you intent to scale up to make sustainable impact (e.g.: hectares restored land? Farmer numbers? Stakeholders? Knowledge? Finance? Leadership?)
• is the scale you are aiming at?

How

are you scaling up? What is your approach, what are the tools you use?

Which

key scaling question do you encounter in scaling up the impact of landscape restoration

Tentative program Knowledge Event

12.00  Network lunch

13.00  Welcome and Network News: the latest landscape updates from the members.

13.15   Opening session by facilitator

13.20   Key note speeches

– Approaches to scaling up landscape restoration

– A view from landscape restoration on the ground

14.00   Open space: introduction of the landscape restoration cases Landscapes and the cases

14.30   Learning from each other in small break out groups + drinks in World café setting

16.00   The harvest: insights for follow up

16.30   What’s next:  synthesis of the day

17.00   Network drinks