We work with poor rural communities in vulnerable landscapes where poverty and climate change hurt the most. We undertake biodiversity conservation to enhance their adaptive capacity and mitigation potential to ensure improved environmental management and sustainable livelihoods where it matters the most. We provide performance-based payments to smallholders undertaking conservation initiatives as an incentive for them to invest in reducing the decline of nature and ensuring regenerative landscapes that steward biodiversity and ecosystems.

Our mission is to “conserve biological diversity and enhance social welfare by promoting innovative and sustainable environmental management”. We deliver conservation finance “where it matters most” – to thousands of smallholders undertaking restoration as a business in rural communities. We deliver conservation finance through innovative community structures and solutions that attract additional capital from private sector to invest in the green opportunities represented by landscape restoration as a business. We make innovative restoration investments that promote climate resilient solutions on a commercial basis and crowd-in private sector finance by playing an intermediary role and undertaking leadership in marketing environmental services.

Our Overall Goal over the next period will be: “Enhanced livelihoods, adaptive capacity and mitigation potential of 16.5 million people in partner communities and landscapes in 33 Districts of Uganda by supporting smallholder-led reforestation, restoration and improved management of at least 60,000ha of degraded land, over the next 5 years”.