UNDP 2016-2021: Institutional Strengthening for the Forest Sector Development
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UNDP has applied to Sida for funding of 43 MSEK and Additional funding of 13MSEK for the period of four years of the project implementation. The intervention aims at Institutional strengthening for forest sector development at national-, regional- and district level. Thus, the project will contribute to the Swedish development cooperation strategy (2016-2020) ...
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UNDP has applied to Sida for funding of 43 MSEK and Additional funding of 13MSEK for the period of four years of the project implementation. The intervention aims at Institutional strengthening for forest sector development at national-, regional- and district level. Thus, the project will contribute to the Swedish development cooperation strategy (2016-2020) in building the capacity of the sector to deliver a better environment through sustainable natural resources management and ecosystem management in way that improve the livelihood of rural community through private sector engagement. The government and local community has fully engaged on the planning and implementation process of the project. Hence, this will establish a sense of ownership at community level. With costed extension the support for June 2023 is 155,000,000SEK
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Result
1. Additional capacity is created at the Commission and its replica through the following processes. One-week capacity building trainings were provided for frontline extensionists at Mertolemariam, Wachamo and Holeta for 251 participants (7 female) on geo-informatics, PFM and forest product value chain. As part of building institutional capacity, web-based platform is being established at the Commission to improve future data management, monitoring, reporting and verification. 2. Forestry institutions are capitated with a targeted study on forestry resource governance gap by SLU and a draft policy brief is presented from this study. CIFOR has provided awareness creation on forest product cooperatives and criteria will be set to select best performing ones. Further, institutional capacities have been improved with internationally procured forestry field and laboratory equipments (to be used for the upcoming trainings) through UNDP. SLU and Wondo Genet provided one-month TOT training for 28 (5 women) senior regional experts and College teachers on three newly designed and skill-based modules (Forest extension, Agroforestry and Small-scale community forestry). 3. A total of 747.05ha of land is covered by plantation in 2020. Key interventions include constructing soil and water conservation structures before planting trees, ‘Belg’ planting to improve survival and much post-planting care including watering during peak dry spells. 4. A total of 357 km of terraces and trenches, 145,237 basins (in number), 1,770 m3 check dams and 4,000 m3 of waterways/cut-off drains have been constructed with active mass mobilization of the community. 5. A total of 250kg of highland bamboo seed collected from South-western Ethiopia and this is distributed and incubated at the project nurseries in the highlands. This will improve and diversify future restoration and afforestation efforts. 6. A total of 10,363.5ha of degraded areas is rehabilitated through assisted natural regeneration. In this area, main intervention includes reduction of livestock free grazing and limiting excessive human interference while improving different off-farm livelihood interventions. 7. Re-establishing of community forests done in 1,154ha . As the result, further degradation of forest lands due to deforestation and soil erosion reduced. Flooding of lower watersheds minimized due to the physical and biological soil and water conservation measures. 8. Community cohesion improved through establishment of forest users’ association. Re-growth of indigenous flora and reintroduction of wildlife species witnessed in the new forest lands, contributing for biodiversity conservation. 9. Additional income generated by selling grass from the new short rotation forest areas through cut-and-carry system. Income of the communities increased from casual labour. Community ownership improved on A/R sites supported by local bylaws and ownership certification systems with direct implication for sustainability. 9. Communities are getting better economic return from the plantations established on their previously unproductive private crop land and/or communal land, indicating better economic opportunity. On the other hand, 57,644ha of dry forest is mapped and demarcated for PFM scheme. Required training is provided for local experts. 10. A total of 526 households (339 female headed) in Amhara region; 214 households (152 female headed) in SNNP region and 535 households (522 female headed) in Tigray region have been benefited from various livelihood activities such as beekeeping, solar lantern, sheep production and poultry in phase one. Similarly, 5,280 (out of which 2,349 are women) households have been engaged in the different livelihood activities in phase two. These households are getting early return and the project has substantial benefit in household resilience building.
Objectives To allow Ethiopia to promote sustainable and competitive tree-based production systems in the rural and urban landscapes in the country thereby contributing to community and ecosystem resilience it is essential to: 1.Strengthen the capacity of forest sector at strategic and operational levels; 2. Create multi-functional landscapes in rural and urban areas; 3. Substantially reduce the vulnerability of poor communities to extreme events.
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