Activities:

1. Understand members’ activities and key ongoing initiatives in restoring ecosystems in terms of objectives, activities, results, and gaps and further activities needed.
   1. Review reports and case studies published by IPSI, members’ activities, and others (e.g., international organizations, research institutes, universities, NGOs).
   2. Conduct a questionnaire survey, a focus group discussion and/or key informant interviews with IPSI members.

2. Identify the most vulnerable ecosystems in terms of locations, types of ecosystems, status and trends of ecosystem degradation, affected populations, management actions taken to protect and restore concerned ecosystems, and gaps and further actions needed.
   1. Review the results and findings from the activity 1
   2. Conduct a literature review on ecosystem degradation, protection, and restoration as well as the impacts of ecosystem degradation on biodiversity and people. IPBES, GEF Satoyama Initiative, COMDEKS and others have done relevant analysis and we can build on those studies and assessment.
   3. (Optional) Conduct detailed analyses as a pilot with a focus on a few countries, using modeling analyses, including geospatial analysis with remote sensing and GIS, to assess the status and trends of the most vulnerable ecosystems, identify priority and potential interventions to maintain and enhance the health of ecosystems, and estimate the effectiveness of such interventions in restoring.
   4. Recommend further activities and actions required for protecting and restoring the most vulnerable ecosystems based on the results and findings from the above-mentioned activities 1-3.