Finance for Resilient Landscapes is a collaboration led by Proforest, Conservation International (CI) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), with philanthropic support from HSBC. The programme is a global effort to accelerate financial flows to support resilient nature-positive commodity production landscapes. This will be delivered at the landscape level through pilots in mature production landscapes with established landscape or jurisdictional approaches. The Tapanuli Landscape of North Sumatra (encompassing Tapanuli Selatan, Tapanuli Tengah, Tapanuli Utara, and Mandailing Natal) is one of the selected landscapes, where Conservation International and Konservasi Indonesia (KI) will be developing and piloting a landscape level financial model that supports government led, nature positive transitions in palm oil. By building on the strong foundation created through the ongoing Tapanuli landscape initiative – where many companies have made significant investments – and linking them to the global finance sector, we can drive progress that is both scalable and sustained over time. Within the Tapanuli landscape, we will identify financing needs and match them with financing mechanisms that help companies and local actors access the type of capital they need to implement and scale landscape transitions – which deliver both production and nature conservation outcomes. In order to define those financial mechanisms, the approach will start with a detailed analysis to understand the value chains of priority economic sectors, policy context, financing needs, types of funding instruments already being used or that could be adapted, and the conservation, community, and economic needs and goals they address. It aims to shift from piecemeal, project-based fundraising towards a more integrated and long-term approach that addresses root drivers of degradation and creates sustainable funding streams for people and nature.
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