Sustainable Landscapes Resource on Select Strategies to Reduce Land-Based Greenhouse Gas Emissions

This Sustainable Landscapes Resource on Select Strategies to Reduce Land-Based Greenhouse Gas Emissions aims to assist USAID staff and implementing partners to strengthen Sustainable Landscapes / Natural Climate Solutions programs and their impacts by grounding them with theories of change -- a key requirement of USAID's program cycle (ADS Chapter 201). It aligns with a core principle of USAID's Climate Strategy: using data and evidence to develop strategies and programs to achieve sustainable impacts at scale. This resource includes: a global situation model that describes the dominant drivers of land-based GHG emissions and factors that influence land-based carbon sequestration; narratives and graphics detailing eight select strategic approaches (SAs) for achieving SL objectives, including a results chain, key assumptions, risks, and references for each; and an annex on Land and Resource Governance (LRG), which appears ubiquitously in the results chains for many of these approaches. Design teams using strategic approaches not specifically targeted in this resource will nevertheless find elements of the approaches developed in this guide valuable for their design work.