Restoration and Advisory Collective
Do you already lead an established project, or bring a specific area of expertise to the work of ecosystem restoration? Join our Restoration and Advisory Collective (RAC) and become part of a collaborative network shaping the future of restoration.
RAC members: share their knowledge and experience with emerging initiatives. Advise and guide pilot projects as they grow. Highlight their own ongoing work and innovations in restoration, public health, and community resilience. Contribute to a living network that links restoration efforts across regions and disciplines.
Why Join? The RAC is designed as a place where established practitioners can collaborate, exchange insights, and connect their expertise with grassroots projects on the ground. Together, we build capacity, expand impact, and ensure that knowledge flows across generations and geographies.
Support the RAC: Your support helps this collective grow and thrive. Contributions fund training opportunities for new initiatives and will eventually provide stipends for RAC members, recognizing the time and expertise they generously share.
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
Location: Zombo District, West Nile- Uganda
Fees: /
Our access to land justice project empowers women as champions of environmental restoration and sustainable livelihood. through collaborative action and establishment of FOOD FOREST, women are,
1. Planting indigenous fruits and restoration tree species to restore ecosystems, improves nutrition and secures income
2. Strengthening Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) to build financial resilience and empower women economically
3. Promote the use of improved household cookstoves to reduce deforestation, save time, cut fuel costs and improve family health
This initiative not only restores the environment but also uplifts women as leaders in conservation, entrepreneurship, and community transformation.
We initiate community sensitization meetings to highlight the profound benefits of indigenous trees, focusing on their crucial role in conservation, biodiversity, and soil health. This foundational knowledge is immediately followed by practical training for community members and women's groups on the proper establishment, care, and monitoring of tree nurseries. Complementing these environmental efforts, we employ our Gender Action Learning (GALs) Methodology to deliver gender-sensitive training, promoting equitable learning and offering practical education on time-saving, fuel efficiency, and household health practices. Ultimately, we ensure the sustainability of these activities by strengthening local economies: linking Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) activities with green enterprises, such as tree seedling businesses and clean energy products, and providing essential capacity-building in financial literacy, record-keeping, and loans management.
Rural Agroecology Network
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
Location: Karamoja, Northern Uganda
Fees: $30 per hourÂ
Rural Agroecology Network is an Indigenous Peoples' Rural Youth-led Non-profit organization, a member of Agroecology Coalition dedicated to promoting sustainable agriculture, environmental protection, and biodiversity conservation within the rural communities of Karamoja, Northeastern Uganda.
We focus on empowering local farmers through adoption of best agroecological practices that enhance resilience, food security, and livelihoods.
Our initiative supports Karamoja’s rural communities and schools to build resilient food systems, preserve their environment, and improve their livelihoods sustainably, through the toughest lenses of climate change, highest child undernutrition, household food insecurity, and poverty in Uganda.
Our solution through the Rural Schools' Agroecology Programme in Karamoja, Northern Uganda, is a game changer in the school meals initiative. Our work transforms vast acres of land within rural schools into sustainable agroecological hubs, producing a range of fruits, vegetables, cereals, and pulses, which is essential to enhance the effectiveness of the school meals initiative. Our permanent agroecology-centered kitchen gardens ensure a long-lasting supply of food for learners from the schools' own production. Our vision is to transform everywhere within the school into food production units, but this isn't simple; it requires collaboration with everyone, the community, and CSOs to implement a robust and major sustainable opportunity, to change the narrative of the ON and OFF school meals initiative, especially for those in vulnerable regions like Karamoja, a semi-arid environment in Uganda, requiring much sustainable food systems transformation within schools.
The Schools Agroecology Programme tracks tree planting, soil restoration, and biodiversity conservation through school-based clubs and community outreach. Progress is measured by increased vegetation cover, the adoption of agroecologically centered kitchen gardens, and the integration of agroecological practices at the school and household levels across rural communities in Karamoja. Outcomes are assessed through learner participation, cultural events, and policy engagement, ensuring ecological gains are scalable and sustainable.
Community-Based Organization (CBO)
Location: Mayuge District, Uganda
Fees: pro bono
Comrades to Youths Africa empowers students through sustainability education, leadership, entrepreneurship, climate action, and digital inclusion. Our initiatives: E-Shule, Play4Change, and student empowerment programs transform schools into eco-friendly, innovation-driven hubs that nurture responsible leaders and protect our shared environment.
Among the projects of Comrades to Youths Africa is the Mayuge Solarpunk Farm, a regenerative initiative that helps communities in the Mayuge District adapt to climate change while restoring biodiversity and enhancing food security. At CTY-Africa, educational and awareness programmes equip young people with the knowledge, values, and skills to thrive while protecting the environment. Through Sustainability Education, students learn about climate change, conservation, and sustainable lifestyles with practical activities such as tree planting, gardening, and clean energy demonstrations. Building on this foundation, the Mayuge Solarpunk Farm integrates agroecology, renewable energy, water harvesting, and low-tech climate solutions to create a carbon-negative food system. As both a model farm and a learning hub, it demonstrates how communities can mitigate climate risks while producing nutritious food, clean energy, and sustainable livelihoods, offering a hopeful pathway where people and nature can flourish together.
Green Planet Initiative 2050 Foundation
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
Location: Eldoret (Kenya)
Fees: /
Green Planet Initiative 2050 Foundation is a registered NGO established under the laws of Kenya (Reg. No.OP.218/051/20-223/11942). GPI2050 is a partner to the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Restoration Implementer 2021-2030. GPI2050 is committed to promoting nature-based solutions (NBS) that ensure the sustainable management of environmental resources for planetary health.
GPI2050’s mission is to support grassroots community movements, smallholder farmers, pastoralists, and forest-dependent communities to accelerate the restoration of degraded landscapes. GPI2050 is an ambitious initiative aiming to restore the African countryside using Nature-based solutions. In partnership with its partners, GPI2050 has developed a strategy to implement forest restoration and regenerative agroforestry in Kenya. The activities will focus on capacity building with farmers in order to regreen the landscape, improve farmer livelihoods and resilience to climate change.
By building the capacity of communities to grow resilient and productive regenerative agroforestry systems, their food security and livelihoods will be positively impacted. Implementing regenerative practices will regenerate degraded land, revive soil life, improve water retention and foster local biodiversity.
I. Reducing pressure on natural resources in protected areas while contributing to the conservation of biodiversity and water shed functions;
II. Strengthening income diversification for resource challenged, rural small-scale farmers and pastoralists through increased productivity;
III. Reducing CO2 emissions by planting trees and by implementing improved forest management systems;
IV. Building the resilience and the adaptive capacities of smallholder farmers and pastoralists to adapt and mitigate against climate change.
More information: https://gpi2050.org/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/gpi2050
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
Location: Wajir County, Northern Kenya
Fees: USD 30 ph
Green Globe Realisation is a grassroots organization in Kenya focused on environmental restoration, climate action, and community empowerment. We collaborate with local communities to restore drylands through indigenous seed banks, tree planting, and wetland conservation initiatives. GGR also promotes school greening, water resource management, and solar energy access. We support green livelihoods for women and youth, explore carbon tracking models, and use storytelling to shift the narrative from "drylands" to "green lands." Our approach is community-led, evidence-based, and partnership-driven.
Green Globe Realisation employs a systematic framework to measure the ecological impact of its restoration projects, with a focus on ecosystem recovery, project refinement, and accountability. The organisation monitors key environmental indicators such as tree survival rates, vegetation cover, biodiversity, soil health, water availability, and carbon sequestration. These data points are collected through a combination of field surveys, drone imagery, lab testing, and community engagement, including input from local school eco-clubs.
Monitoring occurs on a monthly to annual basis, with findings reviewed regularly to guide adaptive strategies. The data serve multiple functions: informing project planning, enhancing restoration methods, demonstrating results to donors, and fostering community involvement. Technical partners provide scientific validation, while mobile tools like KoboToolbox streamline data collection. The overall approach is designed to ground restoration work in evidence, improve transparency, and deepen the long-term ecological and social impact.
Light On A Hill (LOAH) Organization
Community-Based Organization (CBO)
Location: Kiirua, Meru (Kenya)
Fees: $30/hour
Light On A Hill (LOAH) Organization is a youth led community based organization that works with children aged 5-12 to empower them to be eco stewards through lived/outdoor lesson and creative arts in Meru, Kenya. Under lived/outdoor lessons we allow children to interact with nature through gardening, nursery development and management, community clean ups, bee farming , field trips and growing of flowers, herbs and trees. Additionally, we leverage on creative arts whereby we provide a fun and safe space for children to creatively express lessons they gather from nature through drawing, painting, murals, poetry, plays and essay writing. We also have inspirational and conservation focused film watching sessions for the kids. Our goal is to have all these opportunities allow children to grow a caring, responsibility and love that is informed for their natural environment and in the process protect, restore and conserve it.
Restore Mama Earth aims at restoring River Timau and a riparian land neighboring the river. To begin with, we are targeting a 3km stretch of the river and 2 acre of riparian land. The project will be focused on growing 1000 bamboo seedlings along the riverine and 1000 podo, cedar and cypress seedlings for each species in the riparian land. The expected impact will be reforestation and increased forest cover which will translate to improved biodiversity in the community for instance more bird and insect species. Additionally, the water levels of River Timau , soil erosion will be minimized along the riverine, the water will be purified and this will be translated to improved livelihoods and life quality of Kiambogo village inhibitors who depend on the river for irrigation and domestic use.
Waste to Wealth , Rewilding our Floodplains and Fishing for Change
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
Location: Australia, India and the Solomon Islands
Fees: na
Waste to wealth - Waste to Wealth empowers marginalised coastal communities to shift supply chains, collect and recycle existing waste, and convert it into saleable products supporting micro-enterprises. Actively reducing marine debris, open burning and dumping, the program combats the devastating impact that solid and organic waste have on ecosystems and human health within some of the world’s most important marine biodiversity hotspots. Rewilding our Floodplains - landscape scale rewilding of coastal floodplains. Fishing for change - supporting small scale fisheries.
We pride ourselves on transparency and accountability throughout our Global Programs. Underpinned by rigorous scientific data, our programs incorporate: GIS mapping, AI, video analyses, and community surveys. Biodiversity, carbon, and threat-related ground truthing. In-depth analyses, including program challenges, learnings, and successes to offer our supporters, funders and target communities the highest impact possible.
We Address 14 of 17 Sustainable Development Goals - visitÂ
Global Foundation for Climate Change Africa GFCCA
Empowering African Farmers for Climate Resilience
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
Location: East Africa (Kenya)
Fees: $30/hour
GFCCA empowers small-holder African farmers by promoting regenerative agriculture that integrate forest and farmland agroforestry systems, hence fostering sustainable land management, and combat climate change. We aim to improve food security, enhance livelihoods, and support environmental sustainability through education, resources, and practical training.
- Native species planted or restored
- ​Measurements to protect endangered species
- Direct impact on local water bodies
- The trees grown have enhanced the improvement of local biodiversity, for example, more birds species that were near extinction can be spotted in the region of our operations.
- Involves afforestation, reforestation, or soil restoration
- ​We plan to plant mangrove trees to help in the restoration of rivers around our project. We also have plans to help restore the Lake Victoria Watershed which is in our area of operation by planting enough tree cover around the region
Estimate the amount of carbon expected to be sequestered annually: 500,000
Rewilding Africa's Changing Lives in Africa Mission
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
Location: Africa (Kenya-Zambia-South Africa)
Fees: Fundraising and technical support for approved beneficiary partners in Africa
Our goals are bold and ambitious and until we have successfully implemented our theory of change and the paradigm shift that is needed, we will continue to work selflessly towards a vision far greater than ourselves.
The Rewilding Africa multiple land use, multiple revenue stream Community Conservancy, planning, development and management model will change the face of Africa's community conservation.
This is a practical, scaled and replicable solution to Africa’s biodiversity loss crisis, endangered species protection, alternative livelihood creation, and the development framework for a substantive Conservation Economy!
There has never been more of a need than NOW, to truly invest in and support initiatives and programs that empower the wilderness communities in Africa, to not only protect their own nature, but to also thrive from it.
Your contribution is much needed to make this happen.
"Give the man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime". This is the only way we will be able to protect Africa's natural beauty and wildlife in our lifetimes.
- Native species planted or restored
- Measurements to protect endangered species
- ​Direct impact on local water bodies
- ​Our master land use planning process ensures a fully nature-positive water management plan is designed and put in place for the entire Community Conservancy
- ​Involves afforestation, reforestation, or soil restoration
- ​Our master land use planning process ensures a fully nature-positive water management plan is designed and put in place for the entire Community Conservancy
- ​Improves pollination services
- ​Enhances recreational and cultural services
- ​Contributes to flood mitigation
- ​The entire Community Conservancy ecosystem will be measured, planned and placed under proper governance and management
- ​Our Community Conservancy 10-year program includes continuous education, management, and mentoring. We also construct a centrally based Conservancy Hub, where offices, an education center and processing facilities are based
- ​Local community involvement
Estimate the amount of carbon expected to be sequestered annually: 10,000,000,000
Water Care Services, Pakistan
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
Location: Pakistan
Fees: 55
Working in water innovation: from water credits to water circularity, and transboundary water.Â
We have supported various projects in their journey with water treatment to improve water quality.
- Intelligent water management, waste conversion to agriculture, kitchen gardening with hydroponics, and wetlands conservation.
- I have treated water with wetlands, using facultative strains, and reused the treated water. This has made more water reclaimed and available for life.
- Healthy planet, more oxygen, more biodiversity. There will be less carbon footprint, and carbon sequestration.
- Environmental education, and awareness. Learning on water quality. Civic sense. WASH and water importance and conservation. Water-stressed ecosystem improvement. Water circularity, to get integrated water management. Try to make society water positive
- Local community involvement
Estimate the amount of carbon expected to be sequestered annually: 10
Visionary Experts in Ecosystem Restoration
Global Foundation for Climate Change Africa Albina Moraa Machanda
Make it a Greener Better World Tara Van Gaal
PLANET-A-MOR Michael Kristensen
Environmental Consultant Jossyellen Becher
