The Smart Tree-Invest project consisted of three main phases: scoping (research), intervention and mainstreaming. The project started with the effort to understand landscape characteristics, particularly with regards to vulnerabilities and actions to improve smallholder resilience. The project then initiated pilot co-investment activities with smallholders and local development actors. In the final phase, the lessons learnt and best practices were integrated with government policy and programs at local and national levels. The project took a landscape approach that identifies project sites as clusters or typologies with similar ecological and socio-economical traits. Each country site’s unique characteristics (i.e. the problems, threats, strengths, and opportunities) defined the design of its co-investment schemes. The typology resulted from the landscape approach will provide models representing the contexts, proposed actions and solutions that may contribute as inputs for further replications and scale-ups to other areas matched with the typologies within certain jurisdiction boundary (i.e.national, province, district). |
