Fig. 102: Human interaction

Objectives

y Undertaking Sidhi’s restoration opportunity assessment, technological advancements in GIS and remote sensing, combined with emerging global knowledge on restoration and local knowledge, particularly around resource use, tenure, and rights y Developing a strategy for implementing restoration in the district. y Enabling public and private investment in Nature-based Solutions (NBS) at scale, to help meet the triple challenge of recovery of nature, providing for the needs of people, and staying within 1.50C of global warming. y Fostering and showcasing collaborative planning approaches at the state, district, and cluster levels for landscape restoration in Madhya Pradesh. y Inspiring, innovating, and designing solutions for scaling landscape restoration through policy dialogues focusing on people’s first, peer to peer learning approach. y Developing a collaborative implementation plan and identifying and channelling sources of public and private finance to stakeholders conducting implementation in the pilot cluster. y Incubating restoration businesses through farmer producer organizations (FPO) for the cluster and fostering value chain creation of select agri/restoration products. y Creating robust baselines and monitoring the progress of interventions using a citizen science approach for data collection paired with remote sensing and GIS analysis.

Stakeholders Involved

y District Administration of Sidhi, various government departments (forest department, horticulture department, watershed department, livelihoods mission), and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) y WRI India and its partner ecosystem including Bharti Institute of Public Policy, Indian School of Business,

IUCN, Land conflict watch, the University of Hyderabad, Institute of Livelihood Research and Training (ILRT) Bhopal, and the World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-India) y Civil society organizations, local user groups, women, farmers, panchayats presidents, local champions, local research assistants and facilitators, and y Three national-level technical working groups: Landscape Restoration Opportunities Mapping and Monitoring; Land, Policy, Governance, and Gender; and Restoration Finance and Economics.

Fig. 102: Human interaction