Collaborative Landscape Learning Initiative
The Collaborative Landscape Learning Initiative (CLLI) is a platform by and for international NGO’s and knowledge institutes based in The Netherlands to jointly learn about landscape approaches. Participants organize joint learning sessions on issues around the implementation of landscape approaches facilitated by a small secretariat of Tropenbos International and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).
Upcoming sessions:
Spring session: Locally Owned Solutions (date and agenda to be announced)
- Summer session: Inclusive Conservation part 2 (date to be announced)
What it is about
Landscape approaches have been recognized as strong but complex strategies to achieve systemic change in the nexus of climate, food, water and livelihoods. It is an integrated place based approach requiring context specific strategies at multiple levels. International NGO’s have taken up a key role in developing such strategies in different partnerships with governments, communities, knowledge organisations, business and other stakeholders. This has resulted in various models and approaches taking shape in local and regional settings across the globe.
Since the last decade many Dutch based NGO’s, knowledge institutes and governments have been working on landscape approaches. In 2022 they created the Collaborative Landscape Learning Initiative as a platform to exchange and learn from each other on this topic.
How we work
The collaborative learning platform provides a safe space and an organized process to facilitate inter vision among peers from different backgrounds and organisations in The Netherlands. It allows them to keep each other updated on operational issues on the one hand and connects practitioner and policy makers experiences with the scientific knowledge base on landscape approaches on the other hand.
We aim to strengthen an informed and inclusive dialogue between the practitioner organizations and policy makers, representing a diversity of voices from the landscapes themselves, which advances strategic programming and effective and coherent policy development. The insights gained through the sessions are documented and communicated as policy relevant lessons which meet strategic knowledge needs of policy makers and practitioners in The Netherlands. The small secretariat provides support to document the findings, looks after a joint learning agenda and facilitates the participants to organize learning sessions in turns.
Who participates
- Both Ends
- CIFOR/ICRAF
- Commonland
- IDH
- IIED
- IUCN NL
- KIT
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature of the Netherlands (LNV)
- Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)
- Oxfam/Novib
- ProForest
- Rainforest Alliance
- Redd Cross Netherlands
- RVO
- Solidaridad
- SNV
- Tropenbos International
- University of Amsterdam
- WCDI
- Wetlands International
- WUR
- WWF
Interested to join?
Contact André Brasser (Tropenbos International): andre.brasser@tropenbos.org and/or Katie Minderhoud (PBL): katie.minderhoud@pbl.nl
Outcomes of the sessions
- In search of the transformative potential of Landscape Approaches (WUR, March 2025)
- Locally Led meets Landscapes (IIED/PBL, September 2024)
- Inclusive Conservation and Just Transitions (WWF, June 2024)
- Comparing Landscape Approaches in NL and abroad (RVO, May 2024)
- Founding session (CLLI, July 2023)
- People’s landscape Approach (Oxfam Novib, March 2023)
- Corporates in Landscapes (Solidaridad, September 2022)
- The art of Convening (IDH, June 2022)
- Data sharing in Landscapes (Tropenbos International , April 2022)