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The initiative is carried out in the countries belonging to the Central American Integration System, which includes Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic.

Components of the initiative include: 1) Conservation of forests and forest ecosystems; 2) Conservation of the main forest areas of the region and their ecological connectivity; 3)Transformation of agricultural production systems, moving towards a low-carbon and resilient agriculture and livestock management. 4) Integration and promotion of sustainable practices in sugarcane, pineapple, oil palm, cocoa and coffee with inolvement of the private sector. 5) Develop an expanded monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system, which includes agriculture - for both mitigation and adaptation.

ii. Establishment and activation of the Interagency Support Group for the Initiative (GIA-AFOLU2040). iii. Establish a baseline of the management status of the AFOLU sector in the 8 countries of the SICA region. iv. Information and coordination sessions of the Technical Committees on Climate Change of the ACC and the CCAD. v. Facilitate national dialogue between the Environment and Agriculture sectors on AFOLU issues and establishment of AFOLU 2040 Roundtables. vi. Establish AFOLU 2040 Agenda at the national level as an enabling framework for the Regional Initiative. vii. Formulation and initial implementation of a Regional Program for the development and strengthening of capacities in AFOLU sector management. viii. Conceptual harmonization of the AFOLU sector and regional agreement on the typology and criteria to be met by current and future projects that will be added to the Regional Initiative. ix. Formulate a project to design and establish a Regional Measurement, Reporting and Verification System (MRV) for the AFOLU Sector. x. Process evaluation.