The Practical Guide for ILM outlines an adaptive, collaborative and iterative process to help stakeholders achieve transformational change in their landscape. The process has five elements:

1. Landscape Partnership
2. Shared Understanding
3. Vision and Planning
4. Taking Action
5. Impact and Learning.

This guide describes each of the five elements of the ILM process. For each element, we illustrate two to four concrete outputs that LPs can produce to demonstrate progress, and provide foundational materials to share with their partners. 

Any LP with only locally available or accessible resources can implement all of the process elements and produce all of its outputs. LPs are encouraged to invite local agricultural, environment and sustainable development specialists to advise them, join their partnership or even facilitate some processes. But LP members– especially community land and resource users and managers who are ultimately responsible for local landscape regeneration over the long term–must take the lead and fully own the process.

You will note that we focused this guide on the structure and process for effective collaborative landscape management. It does not delve into the substance of landscape regeneration strategies or specific interventions in action plans, as these are context-specific. There are rich experiences, resources and insights to be gleaned that can inform those choices, and 1000L is developing other resources to support landscape and seascape partners in analysing options and crafting their strategy and actions.