The project aims to build the resilience of ecosystems and people’s livelihoods by supporting changes at both strategic and programmatic levels. The project strengthens governance mechanisms, policies, and the coordination for integrated landscape management implementation by enhancing technical and technological capacities of the Government of Zambia (GRZ) on national and sub-national levels and together with other partners of the European Green Nexus Programme.

SLIM project provides multi-stakeholder coordination structures and builds inter-institutional partnerships for better Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) policies and their implementation. SLIM supports the utilization of advanced technological approaches and methods in geographical information systems and remote sensing through cooperation with the European Copernicus satellite service. By improving the data management and data sharing in Zambia, the project develops various maps and data products to identify hotspot/risk areas within the landscape prone to natural disasters such as drought and soil degradation, and to monitor changes within the landscape through land cover/land use change, providing enormous databases for effective decision-making.

Further, SLIM project specifically focuses on forestry, with the development of inclusive forest statistical and monitoring tools, and support for sustainable forest management planning and monitoring. Among others contributes to the Forest Partnership between European Union and Zambia, highlighting the Czech contributions within the Team Europe approach.