Sustainable land management in the South Caucasus involves a complex mix of policy reform, community governance and on-the-ground restoration work. Pasturelands, forests and agricultural soils all require different approaches, but they share a common need: institutions and communities that have both the mandate and the capacity to manage them over the long term. REC Caucasus works across this full spectrum, supporting governments in setting national targets and helping local institutions build the governance structures to meet them.

In Georgia, we have led the drafting of the country's Pasture Management Law and the Strategic Environmental Assessment for the National Pastureland Management Policy Document. At the community level, we established Pasture Users Unions in pilot villages and transferred management rights over state pasturelands to local municipalities - creating functioning local governance mechanisms that secure long-term investment in sustainable land use and reduce dependence on continued project support. We also led Georgia's participation in the UNCCD Land Degradation Neutrality Target Setting Programme, facilitating the national working group and contributing to technical reviews that made LDN targets more spatially explicit and measurable - including concrete plans for forest rehabilitation, expanded protected areas and large-scale land restoration. In Armenia, we work with communities on agroforestry, supporting the reintroduction of local fruit and nut tree species on degraded land to restore ecological function and strengthen rural livelihoods. In both Armenia and Azerbaijan, we support national UNCCD reporting, connecting community-level action to global accountability processes.