1. Context and Rationale - Session Purpose

Establishing how the area-based and landscape-led approaches are driving real change in India’s rural and ecological systems — through local innovation, institutional convergence, and emerging financing pathways.

The session will bring together field practitioners, policy thinkers, and ecosystem partners to extract grounded lessons and practical next steps.

2. Objectives

• Present two or three real landscape cases that showcase integration of livelihoods, ecology, and governance.

• Reflect through thematic lenses — finance, convergence and policy-practice reform, gender and digital public goods — with short expert interventions.

• Facilitate an open discussion to shape a shared agenda for landscape governance in India.

3. Expected Outcomes

• Shared learnings from three grounded landscape experiences.

• Clarity on apparatus to develop a scalable model that brings convergence model enabled by technology and finance

• Identification of 2–3 partners to take forward a working agenda (e.g., study group or toolkit).

• Contribution to ILDC 2025 proceedings as a practitioner-led, action-oriented session.

Paper Presentations

1. Gijjivisha: WASSAN, Boipariguda : (NGO led landscape partnership model)

2. Mr Mansingh Durga Prasad Nayak : WOSCA, Keonjhar (CBO-NGO led Landscape Partnership Model)

3. Mr G. Muralidhar : Senior Advisor, RySS, Government of Andhra Pradesh (Government led model)