Land degradation and deforestation reduce productivity of 23 percent of land and impact an estimated 3.2 billion people worldwide, with 40 percent of the world’s poorest living on degraded land. The main causes are deforestation, desertification, improper soil management and urbanization and the main consequences are loss of services essential to human well-being including resilient landscapes, biodiversity, food supplies and livelihoods. Livable landscapes are key to the prosperity of people and planet and this program brings together global best practice from multiple World Bank departments and other institutions to offer clients state of the art knowledge in how to design, finance, and implement successful large scale livable landscape programs. Building on the priority setting filters in the World Bank Group Scorecard and Global Challenge Programs (GCPs), the program will offer:
Regional convening to share global best-practice and positive spill-over examples that build country level champions for the livable landscape agenda.
Country learning through e-learning, webinars and in-person workshops to create integrated landscape learning and design cohorts across national institutions.
Continuous learning among academics, policymakers, and technical specialists through partnership with local universities, think tanks, centers of excellence and other actors to build a more virtuous knowledge culture.
Strengthening operational engagements through continuous testing and adaptation of delivery strategies that generate the largest development impacts. Capturing lessons learned to inform the design of new operations.