A progress tracking protocol

Political support for the Bonn Challenge has grown exponentially. IUCN and partners are working closely with countries and organisations to provide policy support and technical guidance on forest landscape restoration. A crucial component of this is scaling-up and reporting on implementation activity.

The Bonn Challenge Barometer, led by IUCN with support from Germany's International Climate Change Initiative (IKI), was announced in fall 2016 and initiated in mid-2017. This protocol will help pledgers track their progress on restoration as part of their Bonn Challenge commitments, along three dimensions:

  • Policy commitment and financing for restoration: Whether a jurisdiction has defined the nature and extent of targeted landscapes and what evidence exists of stakeholder support. Tracking indicators include the existence of policies, plans and measures related to forest landscape restoration, domestic budget allocations in support of restoration, and private-sector funding for restoration.
  • Technical knowledge and underpinning: Whether a jurisdiction has maps and analysis of restoration potential, and whether they have identified priority areas for restoration and priority interventions. Tracking indicators include carbon impact estimates, existence of in-country monitoring mechanisms or information at different scales (e.g. community led, district or regional), and gap assessments (e.g. restoration diagnostic of key success factors). 
  • On-the-ground progress: Whether jurisdictions have measurable hectares under restoration and what are the estimated carbon benefits per activity type. Tracking indicators also include an estimation of biodiversity and jobs benefits from restoration underway.

Progress on restoration will be publicised through Bonn Challenge Progress Reports in 2017, 2018 and 2020, synthesizing progress and lessons learned on implementation, highlighting integration with international commitments including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Aichi Targets and providing information and access points for practitioners, investors and civil society.