The Restoration Monitoring Tools Guide

The Restoration Monitoring Tools Guide, developed by Climate Focus and the World Resources Institute in partnership with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the Global Restoration Observatory, provides a framework and interactive tool for designing landscape restoration monitoring systems. It outlines five essential steps for effective monitoring and offers a ToolFinder app to help users select appropriate, ready-to-use tools for terrestrial restoration.

• The guide identifies five essential steps for implementing an effective restoration monitoring system: defining the area of interest for spatial accuracy, establishing consistent indicators to measure objectives, collecting baseline data prior to interventions for comparison, gathering sustainable and reproducible input data at repeated intervals, and reporting results to stakeholders to allow for adaptive management.
• The guide includes an interactive web application called the ToolFinder, which assists users in identifying monitoring tools based on their specific goals. The app provides details on the main uses of a tool, the scales of application, available languages, and associated costs.
• The tools featured in the guide are selected based on their readiness for use, relevance to restoration, adaptability across multiple geographies, and support for at least one of the five essential monitoring steps. The current scope of the guide is limited to terrestrial restoration monitoring.

APA

World Resources Institute (2025). The Restoration Monitoring Tools Guide. https://www.wri.org/initiatives/restoration-monitoring-tools-guide

Chicago

World Resources Institute. The Restoration Monitoring Tools Guide. 2025. https://www.wri.org/initiatives/restoration-monitoring-tools-guide.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitute2025restoration, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{The Restoration Monitoring Tools Guide}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2025}, month = apr, url = {https://www.wri.org/initiatives/restoration-monitoring-tools-guide}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }