Programme
Active
Forests for sustainable development
Country
Ethiopia
Running since
2022
Target reach
55,600 households
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
Farm Africa is implementing Forests for Sustainable Development, a four-year programme in the Oromia Regional State of Ethiopia to build on the success of previous programmes in reducing deforestation, cutting carbon emissions, increasing the incomes of forest-dependent communities and addressing sustainability limitations.
The project will work to benefit both people and planet by developing sustainable livelihoods, reducing biodiversity loss, while also improving the resilience of the local community, and improving governance for integrated landscape management.
55,600
forest-dependent households in 20 woredas (districts) will be reached during this project.
The project will work with communities to sustainably conserve the natural forest, biodiversity and ecosystem in the Bale Eco-region and associated landscapes in Guji and Borena zones of Oromia regional state.
It will develop green economic opportunities for women, young people and forest enterprises to earn a sustainable living from the production and marketing of forest products such as wild coffee. This will be achieved by reducing communities’ need to fell trees and deplete other natural resources through diversification of non-agricultural livelihood options.
Furthermore, the project will ensure knowledge management and coordination systems are operational across the multiple levels of governance, so that sustainable forestry practices can be rolled out at a wider scale for environmental, social and economic sustainability.
Farm Africa is carrying out this project in partnership with local NGO SOS Sahel and in collaboration with the regional government to align with the Oromia Forested Landscape Programme.
Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
Making forests sustainable
Between 2012 and 2021, Farm Africa worked with the NGO SOS Sahel Ethiopia, with funding from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ethiopia, to deliver a REDD+ project that lowers greenhouse gas emissions by reducing deforestation in the Bale Eco-region, while also boosting the livelihoods of local communities living in poverty. This document presents key lessons generated by the Phase II of the project, which ran from 2016 to 2021.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
Forests for sustainable development factsheet
Factsheet on Forests for sustainable development programme, which aims to contribute to the sustainable conservation of natural forests, biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Bale Eco-region and associated landscapes in Guji and Borena zones in Oromia, Ethiopia through interventions that reduce deforestation and biodiversity loss, increase household incomes and resilience of the local community, and improve governance for integrated landscape management.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems