**TERMS OF REFERENCE**:**LANDSCALE ASSESSMENT 2023**:**About Rainforest Alliance the Lamas Landscape**:The Rainforest Alliance has been implementing several initiatives in the province of Lamas, San Martin region, one of them being the development of a landscape assessment with the LandScale (LS) tool. Through this initiative, an Action Plan was generated in a participatory manner in 6 districts of the province of Lamas, in which landscape problems were identified and solutions were proposed to achieve sustainable development by 2030 through the mobilization of private and public investment. LandScale provides a set of scientifically rigorous, yet practical principles, criteria, and indicators for assessing the status and sustainability trajectory within a landscape, which could be a jurisdiction, watershed, or ecoregion. The standardized framework and quality assurance allows for comparative assessment across different regions. Producers, governments, companies, and investors can use LS to track and demonstrate progress toward sustainability commitments at the landscape scale. LS can also help companies understand the sustainability risks and opportunities associated with sourcing or investing in a particular environment. By providing reliable performance data to improve decision making in sourcing and investment schemes, LS links market incentives towards continuous improvement of sustainability at the landscape scale, thereby motivating stakeholders to work together towards common sustainability goals.In that line, within the framework of The Business Case for Collective Landscape Action, supported by USAID and in compliance with the objectives set forth; it is important to carry out a new landscape assessment in the 11 districts of the Lamas province using the LandScale tool and the consequent update of the Landscape Action Plan (LAP).**About the Initiative**:The business case for collective Landscape action: Through this initiative, the Rainforest Alliance will work with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Clarmondial, CDP, and Conservation International to address global environmental challenges associated with commodity-driven deforestation in some of the world's most important tropical ecosystems and sourcing regions. We will convene the private sector, governments, and local farmers and organizations in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, and Indonesia to pilot a globally replicable landscape approach that leverages the complementary expertise of our partners while benefiting local and Indigenous communities and enterprises.The overarching goal of this initiative is to unlock international finance for sustainable production, channel it to well-planned landscapes, and ultimately stabilize critical deforestation frontiers. To facilitate this work, we will use the newly launched LandScale tool, a collaborative initiative co-led by the Rainforest Alliance, Verra, and Conservation International that enables the private sector, governments, and civil society to assess risk and adaptively invest in, monitor, and measure sustainability impact at the landscape level.The initiative promotes, among other objectives, the formation of alliances between different stakeholders in the territory. Because of this, as a previous step to the creation and adoption of an LAP for the territory, it is necessary to carry out this baseline assessment using the LandScale tool.**About LandScale**:LandScale is a tool to assess and communicate landscape sustainability performance. It helps landscape stakeholders gain critical insights, make more informed decisions, and share credible stories of impact. Companies, industry initiatives, NGOs, governments, donors, and financial institutions can use LandScale to measure the sustainability status and trends of any landscape with substantial natural resource-based economies and supply chains.The LandScale system which is to be used to conduct this work is comprised of the following:- **The LandScale Platform**:an online tool that facilitates conducting the five LandScale steps described below and exposing the products of the assessment to a global audience, if desired.- ** Assessment Framework**: the goals, indicators, and performance metrics that constitute the scope of an assessment.- ** Assessment Guidelines**: detailed guidance on the process of conducting a LandScale assessment, accessible through the LandScale platform.- ** Validation Mechanism**:The process of reviewing the assessment methodology and results by the LandScale team (LandScale validation) and local experts (local review).- ** Communications and Claims Policy**:information on the type of claims that may be made based on LandScale assessment results and the process for communicating such claims.**Scope of Work**:The Lamas landscape assessment is carried out within the framework of the objectives of "The Business Case for Collective Landscape Action" supported by USAID
