To ensure the success of our ecosystem restoration projects, thorough monitoring is very important. Every season, we do not only monitor our sites, but also the understanding, commitment and engagement of our partner villages. It allows us to have a comprehensive overview of how each of our sites and partnerships is doing, and what their strengths and weaknesses are. However, the communication about our monitoring results is at least as important as the monitoring itself. Once a year, each of our partner villages receives a detailed report containing their monitoring results. These reports do not only strengthen the attachment of our partner villages to their growing forests, they also allow us to work together with our partner villages towards new interventions and solutions that will continue to make our restoration projects stronger every single day.

Last week, we got together with the representatives of our partner villages in Burkina