The Kulera Landscape REDD+ Program (VCS 1168) for Co-Managed Protected Areas in Malawi provides critical resources for communities to protect their forests through improved climate-smart agriculture and sustainable land use, planned by the communities themselves. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, and a landscape-based REDD+ approach that works directly through a community association is the most dependable path for conservation-based sustainable development. The REDD program areas are located in a five-kilometre zone inside the boundaries of three key protected areas in central and northern Malawi: Nyika National Park, Vwaza Wildlife Reserve, and Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve. These parks are under increasing pressure of encroachment from local populations, which has exacerbated deforestation and forest degradation rates along the borders of the protected zones. The overall goals of the Kulera Landscape REDD+ Program are to reduce deforestation and degradation in these selected protected areas and to improve livelihoods by managing natural resources as an asset base to capture long-term economic benefits. The project proponents are the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW), the Nyika-Vwaza Association (NVA), the Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve Association (NAWIRA), and Terra, who work with the communities in the border zone of the protected areas. The project is now selling VERs to continually fund conservation efforts in conjunction with livelihood improvements for successful climate, community and biodiversity benefits in a win, win, win situation.