Update landscape initiative details

Confirming the details of your landscape initiative is the first step in the reassessment process. This stage involves reviewing key components that characterize the initiative, ensuring consistency across assessments, and updating any relevant details. These include verifying the landscape name, determining the reassessment name, confirming the lead organizations involved, and identifying the reasons for conducting the reassessment. Clearly defining these elements helps maintain alignment with stakeholders and ensures the reassessment builds effectively on previous work.

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Landscape name

The landscape name should remain consistent with previous assessments to maintain continuity. It refers to the specific physical area covered by the assessment and should align with the geographical (e.g., catchment/watershed or stakeholder-defined landscape) or jurisdictional scope of the initiative.

Assessment name

By default, the assessment name will follow the format 'Baseline [Year]' for baseline assessments and 'Reassessment [Year]' for follow-up assessments. However, you may choose a more descriptive name that better reflects the unique characteristics of the assessment, if needed. Consistent naming conventions help differentiate between multiple assessments over time and ensure clarity in tracking progress.

Organizations acting as stakeholders

This section is for confirming the lead organizations involved in the initiative—both formal and informal—as well as their roles in the initiative. If new organizations have taken on a leadership role, or if roles have shifted, these changes should be reflected here. Each listed organization should include its name, logo, website or social media link, and a brief description of its role in the initiative. Additional stakeholders involved in supporting or contributing to the initiative can be included in the stakeholder engagement plan.

Reasons for conducting a reassessment

Clearly articulating the purpose of the reassessment ensures that stakeholders align on the intended outcomes. Reassessment objectives should build on the initial assessment’s findings, tracking progress toward sustainability goals, identifying trends, and informing decision-making. The original objectives set during the baseline assessment should be reviewed, and any modifications should be documented to reflect current priorities.

For example:

Reassessment objective:

• Measure progress since the baseline assessment and identify key changes in landscape sustainability indicators.

• Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions implemented based on baseline results.

• Identify new challenges or opportunities for achieving sustainability goals.

Landscape goals:

• Continue efforts to diversify agricultural production in the landscape.

• Assess improvements in community well-being, including healthcare, education, and infrastructure.

• Track investment trends to determine whether economic activities are shifting toward sustainable models.

Both landscape goals and assessment objectives are usually developed through a participatory process that involves engaging multiple stakeholders. These objectives will guide subsequent actions, including confirming the landscape boundary, selecting which indicators and metrics to reassess, and shaping the focus and presentation of the landscape report.

Recommended stakeholder input

Before starting a LandScale reassessment, it is recommended that the assessment team raises awareness about the reassessment among relevant stakeholders, including any local landscape partnerships as well as people or organizations that the assessment team might want to engage to help collect or access data.

During the initial engagement, the assessment team is encouraged to communicate with stakeholders to help ensure that they:

• Understand the objectives for conducting a LandScale reassessment.

• Are familiar with what LandScale is, what the reassessment process entails, and their opportunities for input and participation in the reassessment.

• Are willing to contribute to the reassessment as appropriate.

While the methods to raise awareness and secure support from stakeholders will vary, based on experience from previous LandScale applications, we recommend using existing landscape partnership platforms or other multi-stakeholder spaces, leveraging communication channels (e.g., local TV, newspapers, social media), and holding meetings and workshops with stakeholders. Representatives from the public sector, local communities, private sector, and civil society should all be included.