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Understanding Integrated Landscape Management and Finance
1. Understanding Integrated Landscape Management
LPs employ a scientifically grounded, field-tested practice called integrated landscape management (ILM). ILM is the foundation upon which 1000L’s tools, resources, and services are built. The ILM methodology uses a systems approach to address multiple challenges simultaneously, achieving synergies and minimizing trade-offs among natural resources, ecosystem management, and user interests. Through the process, stakeholders can transform their landscapes, achieving 4 Returns: human well-being, healthy nature, sustainable economies, and inspiration. The following resources offer an introduction to the ILM approach.
The Integrated Landscape Management Framework
We have developed an adaptive, collaborative and iterative ILM framework to help stakeholders achieve transformational change in their landscape. The ILM framework has five elements that provide context and guidance to any LP as it works to create a more resilient and sustainable landscape.
Resources
Understanding Integrated Landscape Management
Introduction to ILM
This video presents the basic concepts of ILM through an engaging, narrated animation. It shows viewers how ILM can transform a landscape and why it is so effective.
Introduction to the 4 Returns Framework
This website offers a brief overview of the 4 Returns Framework, a practical approach to bring stakeholders together to implement ILM and achieve social, environmental, economic, and inspirational returns.
Little Book of Sustainable Landscapes
The Little Sustainable Landscapes Book shares what it takes to achieve sustainable development through integrated landscape management. From the basics to detailed guidance, this handbook offers insights to catalyze implementation across private and public sectors worldwide.
2. Understanding Integrated Landscape Finance
Sustainable development that is tailored to local contexts and needs led by LPs requires financing that supports holistic transformations at the farm, enterprise, supply chain, and landscape levels.
Integrated Landscape Finance (ILF) is an emerging approach that aligns multi-project, multi-sector investments with the specific needs of local landscapes in terms of biodiversity, water, livelihoods, and climate. ILF involves a process-oriented methodology for planning, sequencing, coordinating, and organizing projects and activities, taking into account their financing needs to achieve defined objectives. It emphasizes the coordination and communication with various internal and external stakeholders to ensure cohesive and effective investment strategies that are long-term and place-based.
ILF supports integrated landscape management and locally led approaches by recognizing that ecological and economic interactions among different projects and enterprises in a landscape can influence profitability, risk, and impacts. Coordinated investment planning can enhance business and project performance and accelerate positive social, environmental, and economic change at the landscape scale.
ILF includes accessing new funding flows, aligning existing flows, and mitigating harmful flows to maximize impact while reducing risk. This approach addresses the needs of both local partners and investors, creating benefits for both parties and ensuring the success of locally led strategies and processes.
Integrated Landscape Finance (ILF) is an emerging approach to financing that aligns multi-project, multi-sector investments with the specific needs of local landscapes in terms of biodiversity, water, livelihoods, and climate. ILF involves a process-oriented methodology for planning, sequencing, coordinating, and organizing projects and activities, taking into account their financing needs to achieve defined objectives. It emphasizes the coordination and communication with various internal and external stakeholders to ensure cohesive and effective investment and funding strategies which have a long-term and place-based objective at their core.
Resources
Understanding Integrated Landscape Finance
How Reimagining Global Financial Systems Can Heal our Planet
This video discusses what ILF is, why it works, and what needs to be done to implement it. Featuring interviews with industry experts, it provides a clear and digestible overview of ILF and its importance.
Integrated Landscape Finance: Coordinated Funding to Multiply Large-scale Benefits
This brief explainer provides a simple summary of the concept of ILF and the main concepts underpinning the approach.
Mobilizing Finance Across Sectors and Projects to Achieve Sustainable Landscapes: Emerging Models
This pioneering report provides a grounding in ILF and inspires innovation by LPs, service providers for landscape finance, developers of landscape finance vehicles, and investors. The report describes the elements of ILF systems, models of landscape investment service providers, and landscape finance vehicles.
Case examples of Landscape Finance Portfolios
This collection of twelve presentations from selected LPs demonstrates their process and learnings from developing integrated portfolios of investable activities across the landscape.
Case Examples of Integrated Landscape Finance Mechanisms
This collection of presentations from finance developers and LPs explains various mechanisms exemplifying the diversity of approaches to securing landscape financing.