With participants coming from more than 8 countries, the regional exchange workshop aims to address the following three objectives:

• Innovative Approaches for Tenure Security: Explore innovative approaches to ensure tenure security and communities' legitimate rights to land and resources are accounted for in land governance and restoration policies. This discussion will be based on existing experiences.

• Joint Call for Tenure Rights for land restoration: Prepare a joint call with UNCCD focal points and CSOs in support of recognizing and protecting communities' legitimate tenure rights in land restoration and forest conservation policies as a follow-up of the UNCCD Land Tenure Decisions.

• Roadmap for Action: To further work at the interface from policy to action and vice versa, a roadmap for action that leverages the momentum generated during the Workshop will be developed to advocate for a UNCCD Decision on land tenure.

The workshop will serve as a platform for knowledge exchange, collaboration, and advocacy to ensure responsible land governance and the recognition of legitimate tenure rights in land restoration and LDN initiatives. Together, we aim to promote sustainability, justice, and resilience in land governance for the benefit of all communities and ecosystems.