The Restoration Diagnostic Can Help Bring Commitments into Action on the Ground

The World Resources Institute has developed the Restoration Diagnostic to help countries and landscapes move from restoration commitments to action. By analyzing 16 global case studies, WRI identified three essential themes for success: clear motivation, enabling conditions, and capacity/resources for sustained implementation. The Diagnostic and its accompanying Excel-based Assessment Tool allow stakeholders to identify missing success factors and determine the policies and incentives needed to trigger restoration at scale.

• Forest landscape restoration is defined as a long-term process aimed at regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being in deforested or degraded areas, providing benefits such as climate change mitigation, biodiversity protection, and improved food security.
• The Restoration Diagnostic is a structured method used to identify key success factors (KSFs) that are present, partially present, or missing in a landscape. It serves as a tool for decision-makers to focus efforts before investing capital or as a means of adaptive management to refine policies during an ongoing project.
• Analysis of 16 global case studies revealed three overarching themes necessary for successful restoration: clear motivation among stakeholders, the existence of enabling ecological, market, policy, social, or institutional conditions, and the mobilization of capacity and resources for sustained implementation.
• Global restoration commitments have increased significantly, with over 85 million hectares of degraded land committed to restoration by 2020 following COP21. Specific initiatives include Initiative 20x20 in Latin America and the Caribbean (nearly 28 million hectares) and AFR100 in Africa (41 million hectares committed by 13 countries).

APA

World Resources Institute (2016). The Restoration Diagnostic Can Help Bring Commitments into Action on the Ground. https://www.wri.org/technical-perspectives/insider-restoration-diagnostic-can-help-bring-commitments-action-ground

Chicago

World Resources Institute. The Restoration Diagnostic Can Help Bring Commitments into Action on the Ground. 2016. https://www.wri.org/technical-perspectives/insider-restoration-diagnostic-can-help-bring-commitments-action-ground.

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitute2016restoration, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{The Restoration Diagnostic Can Help Bring Commitments into Action on the Ground}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2016}, month = feb, url = {https://www.wri.org/technical-perspectives/insider-restoration-diagnostic-can-help-bring-commitments-action-ground}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }