By targeting 100 landscapes of 400 hectares each, TREPA aims to enhance land health, improve climate resilience for smallholder farmers, and generate environmental co-benefits. The findings create a quantitative baseline to inform adaptive management, strengthen institutional capacity, and support TREPA's goal of sustainable landscape restoration with enduring ecological, social, and climate resilience benefits. RCID designed and trained project participants on the annual survey framework, including methods, sampling protocols, data collection tools, analytical frameworks, and reporting templates.

RCID Ltd is mapping hazard hotspots at 52, 58, 21, and 8 locations respectively for floods, landslides, strong winds, high rainfall intensities, thunderstorms, and droughts, utilizing advanced tools for hazard mapping, field assessments, and stakeholder consultations. Beyond mapping and modeling, RCID conducts stakeholder consultations to contextualize findings and performs gap analyses of existing disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation policies, emphasizing nature-based solutions to strengthen early warning, preparedness, response, and recovery mechanisms.

RCID's terminal evaluation documented important lessons learned and identified best practices, providing actionable recommendations to guide future FLR initiatives in Rwanda and the broader region. The evaluation ensures accountability to donors and stakeholders while offering critical insights for adaptive management, supporting the continuity and scaling-up of durable, climate-resilient forest landscape restoration underpinned by inclusive community participation and sustainable natural resource management.

RCID's role included verifying afforestation sites, identifying appropriate species for local agro-ecological zones in government-managed nurseries, and supporting the practical implementation of afforestation plans, including site cultivation, labor mobilization, and long-term site management. The seedlings were distributed to communities in Gatsata, Kacyiru, and Kinyinya sectors of Gasabo District, Kigali City, contributing to environmental restoration while addressing malnutrition through household access to diverse fruit sources.

RCID was contracted by World Vision from January to July 2020 to assess the project's progress, efficiency, and relevance, verifying achievements against baseline targets with a focus on disaggregated stakeholder outcomes and gender inclusiveness. The evaluation reviewed implementation modalities, documented lessons learned, and applied GIS and mapping technologies to assess land cover changes, ecosystem restoration outcomes, and community-level biodiversity indicators, reaffirming RCID's leadership in gender-responsive evaluation, biodiversity mapping, and conservation monitoring.

RCID applied the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) and a rapid diagnostic approach to map restoration opportunity areas, assess options with multiple benefits, and identify policy and institutional factors influencing FLR outcomes, establishing a monitoring and evaluation framework with key performance indicators to guide implementation, learning, and accountability.

RCID generated evidence-based data for effective project planning and impact measurement, focusing on early achievements in reducing malnutrition among children under five and assessing community knowledge, attitudes, and practices influencing service delivery. The baseline established clear benchmarks for outcome and output indicators, laying the groundwork for measuring intermediate results and enabling the scale-up of high-impact strategies.

Gender equity and social inclusion were a significant focus, with at least 60% of beneficiaries being women and girls. RCID's analysis explored engagement in biodiversity planning, leadership structures, and livelihood diversification, and examined community-led land use planning processes — including base maps, diagnostic tools, and restoration action plans — and their contribution to reducing land degradation and improving ecosystem health.

RCID prepared an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) analysis, and an Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP), guiding sustainable land use plans including agroforestry systems, erosion control techniques, and water harvesting technologies. A key output was a full project proposal submitted to the Green Fund Rwanda (FONERWA) incorporating gender-responsive strategies and governance recommendations.

RCID led the design and implementation of a feasibility and viability assessment of proposed rehabilitation activities, supported by an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, Environmental Management Plans, and Environmental and Social Management Plans incorporating socio-economic analysis, climate risk profiling, and financial viability. A full project proposal was submitted to the Green Fund Rwanda (FONERWA) incorporating gender-responsive strategies and policy recommendations.

Using document review, site visits, validation workshops, stakeholder interviews, and community engagement, RCID assessed the program's contribution to climate resilience and green economy goals, how Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) were integrated, and overall performance across relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability, coherence, and partnerships — delivering evidence-based recommendations to improve future climate finance strategies.

RCID applies the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) to map priority restoration areas and monitor ecological recovery, combining stakeholder consultations, geospatial analysis, and field validation. Using satellite imagery, remote sensing, and GIS tools, RCID's team assesses tree survival, vegetation cover change, soil health, and community participation, informing adaptive management and supporting IUCN and national partners in ensuring effective, sustainable restoration interventions.