In 2012, the National Environmental Policy in El Salvador was updated and the Ecosystem and Landscape Restoration Program -PREP- was created, which aims to promote and facilitate the restoration of ecosystems and rural landscapes to ensure the provision of key ecosystem services, as well as the conservation of biodiversity to reduce risk and adapt to the impacts of climate change in 5 prioritized landscapes.

By 2014, investments in ecosystem and landscape restoration were scarce, so the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of El Salvador -MARN- , through Ministerial Agreement No.31 defined the signing of cooperation agreements with environmental funds, in order to establish mechanisms to comply with environmental compensation measures; and that the identified resources were invested in the restoration of ecosystems and landscapes.