Guided by our vision of resilient ecosystems and empowered communities, our 5-Pillar Approach integrates people, nature, and sustainable livelihoods into a unified model of long-term restoration.

• Local leadership development: Training community leaders to guide restoration efforts effectively, at scale.
• Strengthening community institutions: Building strong systems for managing land and natural resources.
• Collective ownership of restoration: Ensuring communities share responsibility and benefits from restored landscapes.

• Science-based forest and landscape restoration: Rehabilitating degraded ecosystems using ecological principles.
• Culturally rooted land management: Aligning restoration with traditional practices and community values.
• Enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem vitality: Supporting wildlife, pollinators, and healthy ecological processes.

• Respecting traditional ecological knowledge: Using local wisdom to guide restoration in culturally meaningful ways.
• Combining indigenous knowledge with modern science: Merging two knowledge systems to create robust solutions.
• Co-creating context-specific models: Developing restoration approaches tailored to local environments and cultures.

• Supporting regenerative and natural farming: Promoting farming systems that restore soil and ecosystem health.
• Strengthening value chains for local produce: Improving production, processing, and branding to increase income.
• Connecting communities to markets: Linking eco-friendly products to stable, fair, and scalable markets.

• Restoring landscapes that buffer climate impacts: Using natural infrastructure to reduce drought, floods, and heat stress.
• Preparing communities for environmental challenges: Equipping people with the knowledge and tools to adapt.
• Promoting long-term socio-ecological resilience: Building systems that sustain both people and nature over time.