Under the guidance of the Programme Management Officer in liaison with the UN Decade Multi-Country Mountain Flagship Focal Point for the Virunga Region, the consultant will carry out the following activities: Literature and project review of restoration and in the GVL mountains (Uganda and Rwanda); Identification and analysis of restoration and EbA best practices; Identified barriers and lessons learned from interventions that underperformed or lacked sustainability; Developed criteria for prioritizing solutions for upscaling, including ecological impact, cost-efficiency, social inclusion, and co-benefits, and replicability in different contexts of the GVL; Comprehensive report including: Annotated catalogue of best practices and case studies, Prioritized list of solutions for scaling based on validation by stakeholders and Recommendations for investment, policy support, and capacity development; The consultant is also responsible for delivering/submitting the above mentioned deliverables via email to the supervisor in editable documents (except for final products) for review and input by the project team. Reporting lines: The consultant will report to the Programme Management Officer, responsible for the project: “Multi-Country Mountain Flagship” under the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and outputs delivered by the consultant will be evaluated by the supervisor in liaison with the UN Decade Multi-Country Mountain Flagship Focal Point for the Virunga Region.