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The Smart Tree-Invest project: Climate-smart, Tree-based Co-investment in Adaptation and Mitigation in Asia

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The Smart Tree-Invest project consisted of three mainphases: scoping (research), intervention and mainstreaming. The project startedwith the effort to understand landscape characteristics, particularly withregards to vulnerabilities and actions to improve smallholder resilience. Theproject then initiated pilot co-investment activities with smallholders andlocal development actors. In the final phase, the lessons learnt and bestpractices were integrated with government policy and programs at local andnational levels.The project took a landscape approach that identifiesproject sites as clusters or typologies with similar ecological andsocio-economical traits. Each country site’s unique characteristics (i.e. theproblems, threats, strengths, and opportunities) defined the design of itsco-investment schemes. The typology resulted from the landscape approach willprovide models representing the contexts, proposed actions and solutions thatmay contribute as inputs for further replications and scale-ups to other areasmatched with the typologies within certain jurisdiction boundary (i.e.national, province, district).

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