Our Aims

• Building a supportive global network that draws together Landcare initiatives to learn from each other through information exchange, cross-visits and people exchanges, peer-to-peer learning, regular conferences and training workshops, and encourages national Landcare initiatives;
• Facilitating access to and extension of research and development and relevant science and technology innovations;
• Establishing and maintaining a lessons-learned database of Landcare successes;
• Brokering and mobilising financial resources to facilitate strategic investments in Landcare;
• Promoting guiding values associated with Landcare philosophies;
• Facilitating multi-level and multi-sectoral relationships within national Landcare projects and activities; and
• Assisting the development of Landcare in interested countries.

Our Guiding Values In advancing international Landcare alliance and promoting Landcare approaches, we are guided by the following values:

• Shared conservation ethic and philosophy that is realised on the ground in communities
• Community-based and participatory – taking action on a group basis
• Focused in local issues based on local knowledge, within a watershed/catchment context
• Local ownership/involvement in local resources issues and solutions
• Partnership approach
• Voluntary
• Grassroots leadership with top-down support
• Flexibility and adaptability at all levels
• Adds values to existing groups and initiatives
• Inclusive organizations
• Non-political
• Based on sustainability: stewardship, profitability, people and community
  Science-based with appropriate technology
• Engage existing groups and initiatives