Livable Landscapes Academy
The Livable Landscape Academy (LLA) is a ten-year knowledge platform focused on three main activities: knowledge curation (collecting and organizing good practices and research), knowledge exchange (facilitating peer learning and knowledge sharing among stakeholders), and an impact program (coalition building, targeted tools and technical assistance for specific countries and programs to scale outcomes).
- Knowledge Curation (eBooks, data and knowledge explorers, AI query)
- Knowledge Exchange (virtual communities of practice, virtual/hybrid/ in-person events/ meetings)
- Impact Program – curated knowledge solutions delivered through face-to-face and peer learning
- Engage with relevant stakeholders (global/ regional/ national LLA events, discussions with relevant WBG teams/counterparts) – to identify scaling needs and opportunities
- Build Partnerships (to build a coalition for change to facilitate meaningful action on the scaling needs)
- Undertake enabling Knowledge Activities for scaling (e.g. targeted knowledge curation/ exchange with appropriate expertise)
- Adapt knowledge to delivered in the impact program to individual circumstances (for example, adapt the design of a bond to fit project needs)
- Develop Scaling Plans (addressing scaling needs at Country/ Project Scaling level)
- Facilitate Implementation of Scaling Plans (through knowledge curation/exchange support)
- Implement adapted knowledge
Initially, LLA addresses environmental degradation across three landscapes—tropical forests (with challenges of deforestation, degradation and poaching), drylands (with challenges of climate resilience, water scarcity, land productivity and erosion), and coastal regions (with low blue economy productivity, coastal erosion, and delta/estuary resilience challenges) —and three solution areas: policies and regulations, technology (both digital and physical), and financing. Over time, additional landscapes such as rangelands, urban environments, mountain regions, and wetlands may be incorporated.
