Get started with LandScale reassessments

Our guidelines provide detailed instructions on how to conduct a reassessment of your landscape using LandScale. Reassessments are repeat assessments which build upon baseline assessments, enabling you to track progress, evaluate the effectiveness of sustainability efforts, and refine strategies for long-term impact.

Introduction to LandScale

LandScale offers a powerful platform for conducting holistic landscape assessments, helping you capture the essential dynamics of ecosystems, human well-being, governance, and production within your landscape. With LandScale, you can develop meaningful baselines, track progress, and showcase the sustainability impact of your actions over time.

These assessments are more than a tool for measurement—they are a catalyst for collaboration. They engage stakeholders to build a shared vision for the landscape’s future, ensuring that everyone works toward common sustainability goals.

Introducing LandScale: A user-friendly assessment tool developed by the Rainforest Alliance, Verra, and Conservation International.

For more information about the LandScale system and assessment framework, refer to our baseline assessment guidelines.

Understanding landscape reassessments

A landscape-level performance reassessment provides a critical opportunity to evaluate the impact of interventions and external factors on your landscape’s sustainability. By comparing reassessment results to the baseline, you can determine where progress has been made, identify persistent challenges, and refine your strategies accordingly.

Conducting a reassessment with LandScale offers multiple benefits, such as providing data to support adaptive management, strengthening transparency and accountability, and enhancing access to performance-based financing. Funders often expect reassessment results as key evidence of progress at the end of a project, and these findings can be instrumental in securing continued support. LandScale’s validation and local review processes help ensure that reassessment results remain credible and trusted by stakeholders.

Beyond these immediate benefits, using LandScale for the baseline assessment and reassessment helps position it as the foundation of a robust monitoring and evaluation system for the landscape. This demonstrates a structured approach to tracking progress over time, even in the absence of immediate changes to landscape management practices.

Types of reassessments

Full reassessment

A full reassessment covers the entire scope of the baseline assessment, offering a holistic evaluation of all sustainability pillars in the LandScale assessment framework. This approach tracks progress across all indicators from the baseline, providing a clear view of the landscape’s overall trajectory. It allows for an in-depth review of how landscape interventions and external changes have impacted key areas such as land use, governance, production, and human well-being.

Performance tracking of specific indicators

This type of reassessment focuses on tracking the progress of a selected subset of indicators from the baseline assessment, rather than a full evaluation. It may be conducted between a baseline and a full reassessment to monitor performance in relation to claims made or to track key metrics that are particularly relevant to the landscape.

Performance tracking allows for a more focused review of specific areas of interest or concern, providing insights into short-term trends and outcomes. While it limits the scope compared to a full reassessment, it still provides valuable information on ongoing changes and key sustainability factors.

Conducting a reassessment with LandScale

LandScale simplifies the reassessment process with a step-by-step workflow, thorough guidelines, and a library of field-tested indicators and metrics. The platform’s resources—including technical support and customization options—enable you to efficiently update data, analyze trends, and maintain a reliable record of your landscape’s sustainability journey.

The reassessment process involves the following steps:

• Step A: Assemble your team, review the landscape boundary, and update the stakeholder engagement plan.

• Step B: Select relevant metrics to reassess and gather the necessary data.

• Step C: Review and analyze your data, validate the results, and prepare to present your findings.

Detailed instructions for each step are provided throughout these guidelines, ensuring you have the information needed to conduct a thorough and effective reassessment.

Find the assessment you want to reassess and click the three dots next to it.

From the menu, select “Start reassessment” to begin.