Attracting Private Investments for Sustainable Landscapes: A Guide

This guide aims to provide project organizers with a clear approach and guidance on how to identify landscape finance projects, and how to support project developers in making landscape finance projects investment-ready.

Who is it for?

This toolkit has been developed for project organizers (for example, in-country teams from organizations such as IDH, WWF and their partners). It aims to provide guidance in identifying landscape finance projects and supporting project developers to attract investments.

In this process, the project developer carries the responsibility for driving the entire development process, with support from the project organizer.

When and where to start with this toolkit?

In using this toolkit, it is assumed that the following elements are already in place: Landscape strategy: a landscape strategy has been developed and adopted by key stakeholders, or is generally recognized as a suitable strategy for improving the landscape. List of indicative investors in landscape: a set of (local or international) investors who could potentially invest in landscape finance projects consistent with the landscape strategy. A brief introduction to identifying investors in landscape finance is provided on page 12.

All users of this toolkit are recommended to start with the introduction, as it provides a useful overview of the overall process, as well as some key overarching considerations when identifying, incubating and designing an investable landscape finance project.