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preserve forests and improve livelihoods.

• Alliance for Sustainable Landscape and Markets (Rainforest Alliance): $4.1m (USAID - anticipated funding, subject to availability of funds); $4.7m (leveraged funds), 2018-2022. This activity aims to increase the profitability and competitiveness of community-led sustainable farm and forestry businesses by improving sustainable production practices in agroforestry and forestlands by assisting in developing partnerships with the public and private sectors for sustainable sourcing.

• Sustainable Management of Community Lands II (Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible): $4.2m (USAID - anticipated funding, subject to availability of funds); $4.2m (leveraged funds), 2018-2023. This activity supports improved management of community forests, increasing the economic viability of community-based forest enterprises, and reducing deforestation and forest degradation in the states of Campeche, Estado de Mexico, and Quintana Roo.

• Applying the “LandScale Assessment Framework” in Mexico (Rainforest Alliance): $1.3m (USAID - anticipated funding, subject to availability of funds); $1.25m (leveraged funds), 2019 2023. The purpose of the activity is to test the LandScale Assessment Framework’s effectiveness as a tool to catalyze multi-stakeholder planning and coordinated action in one landscape in Jalisco to reduce deforestation. The LandScale Assessment Framework provides a standardized approach for monitoring, verifying, and communicating sustainability status and trends at the landscape level and creating corresponding incentives for land-users and companies to adopt forest-friendly practices.

• Improve Livelihoods through the Recognition of Standing Forest Value using Market Mechanisms (Pronatura Mexico): $4.1m (USAID - anticipated funding, subject to availability of funds); $4.1m (leveraged funds), 2019-2024. By applying the Climate Action Reserve’s forest carbon protocol, the activity will certify 202,000 hectares in different states, including in Oaxaca, Aguascalientes, Veracruz, and the state of Mexico. Work is divided into three components: (1) generation of carbon credits, (2) public policy and market strengthening, and (3) organizational capacity strengthening.

• Sustainable Landscapes and Forest Transparency Activity (U.S. Forest Service): $5.5m - anticipated funding, subject to availability of funds, 2019-2023. USAID, in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, builds the capacity of the Government of Mexico in forest management and governance by implementing a robust and transparent national forest inventory and monitoring system to improve decision making and forest management, strengthening Mexico’s forest management system to improve the transparency and legality of raw materials and forest products, improve sustainable land management, and reduce illegal logging and improve sustainable natural resource management practices at the community level.