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The Ecuador Sustainable Forests and Coasts project aims to improve income for local communities, the project helps increase their productivity and the sale of products that depend on conservation (such as organic cocoa, vegetable ivory nuts, and crabmeat). For example: helping communities meet requirements for accessing financial incentives for conservation, such as the Forest Partner Program of the Ministry of the Environment of Ecuador (MAE), which provides cash payments over 20 years for the conservation of natural forests.

Improved land and resource governance through the application of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) in rural and indigenous communities in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.

The goal of the project was to improve the livelihoods of 36,000 poor households, indigenous and peasant communities, women and small-scale entrepreneurs in a strip of territory between the Amazon, the mountains and the coast, in the northern centre of the country. This will be achieved by providing more opportunities for participatory planning and by developing entrepreneurial capacities, managing natural resources.

The project aims at supporting the ministry of environment to implement the new organic code of environment for its aspect on tenure in line with VGGT to recognize, map and register tenure rights in protected areas while contributing to biodiversity protection, reducing tenure insecurity and social conflicts.

The capacities of institutions and local stakeholders are strengthened and make an important contribution to sustainable development of Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.

The project is well embedded in the SDC Global Programme Climate Change's global approach to face climate change in the land-use sector through increased regional cooperation and strengthened joint information and negotiation platforms. The fundamental rationale of ANFOR is that through the consolidation and up scaling of advanced conservation mechanisms, significant improvements in the conservation and sustainable management of Andean forests will be reached, improving the livelihoods of Andean farmers and concurrently addressing climate change.

Indigenous communities and producer organisations implement models for sustainable use of biodiversity with consideration of climate change.

The rural society in selected landscapes in northern Amazonas regions participates in the implementation and preservation of sustainable usage of biodiversity including climate sensitive approaches.

Given the focus of the research project in understanding how climate change aggravates the vulnerability of poor rural people, the main objective of the research was to identify the fundamental social and environmental causes that put poor rural people in a vulnerable position with view to climate change and to identify their strategies of resilience.

Research intervention to demonstrate the importance and feasibility of incorporating questions on women's asset ownership and control.