To combat climate change and preserve its natural forests, Mozambique Initiated the Zambezia Integrated Landscape Management Program (ZILMP), with the aim of reducing deforestation across nine districts over the period 2018–2024 and generating 50 million USD in carbon credit revenues. However, program progress has been limited by slow fund disbursement and rising deforestation. So far, only 25% of ZILMP’s overall emissions reduction target and 14% of the overall revenue target have been achieved, with minimal benefits reaching local communities. Benefits shared with communities, the private sector, district and provincial authorities, and the Gilé National Reserve amount to only about 3% of the originally estimated program benefits. Additionally, among the ten districts with the highest tree cover loss in Zambezia from 2018 to 2023, six are part of ZILMP.
