Brief project description: The project will work in the forest, savannah and rangeland of Namibia's northern areas to pilot an integrated landscape management approach, reducing poverty through sustainable nature-based livelihoods, protecting and restoring forests as carbon sinks, and promoting Land Degradation Neutrality. This is achieved by a strategy which develops national and regional capacity for an integrated approach to planning and managing landscapes, for monitoring spatial results in reporting on multilateral environmental agreements, and for compliance with environmental legislation (Component 1). The project works in a set of focal landscapes to demonstrate how to achieve the related and overlapping spatial targets of these MEAs, implementing the Integrated Regional Land Use Plans through fine-scale participatory land use planning and management with communities, businesses, local government and traditional authorities. This landscape-level work will enable a demonstration of the impacts of integrated landscape management for rural development and wealth creation, through sustainable land and forest management interventions on the ground with communities, and nature-based enterprise development (Component 2). Innovative financial mechanisms will be put in place for scaling up nationally (Component 3), based on capturing and sharing of lessons learnt and impact achieved through the new integrated landscape management approach (Component 4). The project draws together a wide range of stakeholders from the public sector for intragovernmental coordination, in partnership with the private sector, civil society, research organizations, and donor and technical partners, to bring about a shift in the way Namibia approaches rural development, coordinating actions to reverse environmental degradation and maximize nature-based livelihoods.