The Restoration Initiative (TRI) in Sao Tome and Principe is helping enhance national commitment to forest and landscape restoration (FLR) and improve and develop a policy framework supportive of conservation, restoration, and sustainable management of the country’s forests and coastal ecosystems. To do this, TRI Sao Tome and Principe created the National Platform for Forest and Landscape Restoration, which supports and steers FLR work and includes all major FLR stakeholders in the country. TRI also worked with the Directorate of Forests and Biodiversity to elaborate a Forest Landscape Plan to inform and guide sustainable forest management and restoration. Additionally, TRI supported the drafting of a policy influence plan as part of work to develop a blueprint for FLR policy improvement that includes policy review and helped the convening of a working group meant to improve existing policies and adopt new laws, regulations, and incentives. 

TRI is a GEF-funded project.