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Who We Are

The BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (ISFL) collaborates with countries around the world to reduce emissions from the land sector through smarter land-use planning, policies, and practices.

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Approach

ISFL aims to help rural communities address poverty and develop sustainably while simultaneously reducing land-based greenhouse gas emissions. To accomplish these goals, ISFL programs seek to build on experience, leverage partnerships, incentivize results, and emphasize working at scale.

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Pillars
Working at Scale
Working at Scale
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Leveraging Partnerships
Leveraging Partnerships
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Incentivizing Results
Incentivizing Results
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Building on Experience
Building on Experience
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Programs

The ISFL provides technical assistance to support the design of programs that impact multiple sectors of the economy and results-based payments to incentivize and sustain program activities. 

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Orinoquía Sustainable Integrated Landscape Program
Colombia
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Oromia Forested Landscape Program
Ethiopia
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Jambi Sustainable Landscape Management Project
Indonesia
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Mexico Strengthening Entrepreneurship in Productive Forest Landscapes Project
Mexico
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Zambia Integrated Forest Landscape Program
Zambia
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Themes

The four key pillars of the ISFL—private sector engagement, gender and social inclusion, technical capacity building, and strengthening program design—are at the heart of the initiative’s work on sustainable land use.

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Private Sector Engagement
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Private Sector Engagement
Carbon Accounting
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Carbon Accounting
Gender and Social Inclusion
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Gender and Social Inclusion
Strengthened Program Design
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Strengthened Program Design

Knowledge Center

The ISFL promotes and shares technical information, guidance materials, and lessons learned from its work to support further scaling and replication of sustainable land use initiatives.

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Recent Publications
2020 BioCF ISFL Annual Report.pdf
Annual reports
October 2020
2020 BioCF ISFL Annual Report
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https://biocarbonfund-isfl.org/ISFL-2020-Annual-Report/
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ISFL 2020 Annual Report_Web_Final.pdf10.03 MB
Benefit Sharing at Scale: Good Practices for Results-Based Land Use Programs
Benefit Sharing Resources
November 2019
Benefit Sharing at Scale: Good Practices for Results-Based Land Use Programs
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https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/32765
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https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/32765
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https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/32765
2019 ISFL Annual Report
Annual reports
October 2019
2019 BioCF ISFL Annual Report
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ISFL Annual Report 2019_7.pdf8.68 MB
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FEATURE STORY
February 03, 2021
The future of Colombian cocoa is sustainable, climate-smart, and oh so sweet
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MULTIMEDIA
March 20, 2020
Conserving a Region Rich in Biodiversity
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World Bank Signs $18 Million Grant to Crowd-in Forest Action in Ethiopia
PRESS RELEASE
March 23, 2017
World Bank Signs $18 Million Grant to Crowd-in Forest Action in Ethiopia
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World Bank along with President of Colombia Mark Grant Signing for US$20 Million to Mitigate Impacts of Climate Change
PRESS COVERAGE
March 09, 2018
World Bank along with President of Colombia Mark Grant Signing for US$20 Million to Mitigate Impacts of Climate Change
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Innovative Global Study Now Available

New report from the ISFL, "Toward a Holistic Approach to Sustainable Development: A Guide to Integrated Land-Use Initiatives," takes stock of lessons learned from over a decade of practice. 

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