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PROG2017-2021-DGD: Local communities utilize ecosystem services thanks to restoration of forest relics and exclosures

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  • date_range Mar 31, 2017 - Dec 31, 2021
  • autorenew Closed (Status)

The overall aim is to improve household livelihood for rural communities in a set of communities in the north-Ethiopian Tigray region, by supporting community-based woodland restoration and woodland ecosystem services development. The major objectives are (i) to boost woodland ecosystem restoration on large and highly degraded areas by management of exclosures and forest relicts; (ii) to improve resilience to land degradation and store carbon in the restored woodlands; (iii) to support ecosystem services development (a.o. increased availability of fodder, firewood provision and grassy biomass; erosion reduction; honey and/or frankincense production). The interventions will lead to the following specific (quantifiable) targets: (1) Increased area of better managed community woodlands; (2) Increased inclusive and participatory established woodland area with increased water infiltration, soil moisture and reactivation of springs1, less land degradation (desertification) activity and water runoff – which will create resilience against the effects of recurrent droughts; (3) A social shift towards stable feeding, as fodder can be derived from grass harvested from the exclosure; and (4) Sequestration of carbon, mainly through increases in above- and belowground biomass.

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  • Forestry development

Participating Organisations

Belgian Development Cooperation Government Funding
BOS+ tropen National NGO Accountable
BOS+ tropen National NGO Funding
BOS+ tropen National NGO Implementing
Ethio Trees Ecosystem Restoration Association National NGO Implementing
Mekelle University Academic, Training and Research Implementing
WeForest Belgium National NGO Implementing

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Budget

165,832 USD
  • 30,987 EUR (Valued at Mar 26, 2017)
    date_range Mar 31, 2017 - Dec 31, 2017
  • 32,140 EUR (Valued at Mar 26, 2017)
    date_range Jan 01, 2018 - Dec 31, 2018
  • 31,726 EUR (Valued at Mar 26, 2017)
    date_range Jan 01, 2019 - Dec 31, 2019
  • 29,740 EUR (Valued at Mar 26, 2017)
    date_range Jan 01, 2020 - Dec 31, 2020
  • 29,080 EUR (Valued at Jan 01, 2017)
    date_range Jan 01, 2021 - Dec 31, 2021
access_time Updated on Nov 16, 2022 16:41:51