Enhancing Resilience of Communities and Ecosystems in the drylands of Ethiopia through Sustainable Forest Management

The project aims to reduce GHG emissions by 4.5 million tCO2eq over five years and 18.2 million tCO2eq over 20 years while benefiting 157,000 vulnerable people. It addresses barriers including poverty-induced dependence on natural resources, financial constraints, and weak institutional capacity in dryland areas. The initiative focuses on three components: forest protection and restoration, development of forest-based value chains (such as bamboo, honey, and resins), and capacity building for local government and community organizations.

• The project targets the protection, restoration, and sustainable management of one million hectares of dry forests to achieve a mitigation impact of 4.5 million tCO2eq over five years and 18.2 million tCO2eq over 20 years.
• The initiative aims to increase the resilience of 157,000 direct beneficiaries across 63 kebeles in 21 woredas within seven regional states of Ethiopia.
• Dry forests in Ethiopia cover 11 million hectares, representing 63 percent of the national forest cover, but face severe pressure from commercial farm expansion, overgrazing, and excessive fuelwood extraction.
• The project identifies six primary barriers to sustainable dry forest management: social (poverty and dependence), financial (lack of investment), institutional (weak local governance), technical (limited research on dry forests), capacity to manage trade-offs, and underdeveloped product markets.
• The project will implement a three-component strategy: (1) protecting and restoring forests, including 21,000 ha of degraded forests and 10,000 ha of invasive-species-covered rangelands; (2) developing forest-based value chains for non-timber products like bamboo, gums, resins, and honey; and (3) building national and local capacity for climate information and forest management.
• The total indicative project cost is USD 50 million, with USD 45 million requested as a grant from the Green Climate Fund and USD 5 million provided as co-financing by the Ethiopian government.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2023). Enhancing Resilience of Communities and Ecosystems in the drylands of Ethiopia through Sustainable Forest Management. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/29210-enhancing-resilience-communities-and-ecosystems-drylands-ethiopia-through-sustainable-forest.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Enhancing Resilience of Communities and Ecosystems in the drylands of Ethiopia through Sustainable Forest Management. 2023. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/29210-enhancing-resilience-communities-and-ecosystems-drylands-ethiopia-through-sustainable-forest.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2023enhancing, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Enhancing Resilience of Communities and Ecosystems in the drylands of Ethiopia through Sustainable Forest Management}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2023}, month = may, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/29210-enhancing-resilience-communities-and-ecosystems-drylands-ethiopia-through-sustainable-forest.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }