Transcript WVE climate resilient initiative

WVE Climate Resilient
initiative, the case of HumboSoddo AR projects
October 13, 2014
Addis Ababa, Hilton Hotel
Background
• Ethiopia’s livelihood is dependent on land, water and natural
Environment.
• Environmental degradation has resulted in an average loss of
70,000 tones of grain/year (Mohamed Yesuf, et al, 2006) as a
result of loss of 20 tones of soil per hectare per year .
• climate change has also been a problem for our rain fed
agriculture, Annual rainfall variability in the country is 30%
(Bewket, 2007).
• Environmental degradation, coupled with climate change
accentuated vulnerabilities of the rural poor specially
elders, women and children.
• Ethiopia has experienced a variety of disasters, the major being
drought.
Background
• Floods have claimed the lives of many people and led to
destruction of property in some parts of the country, for
instance in Dire Dawa and South Omo, 2006.
• IPCC fourth report indicates for each degree of temperature
increase, there is a prediction of 20% reduction in
agricultural yields in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Climate Change greatly affects the vulnerable groups like old
aged, women & children and is a challenge for overall growth
and development as it
- Could undermine investment in development activities.
– Reduce community resilience and make communities more
vulnerable to shocks.
Strategic Focus areas and Overall
Objective of the initiatives
Strategic Focus Area 1: To work on adaptation
actions that strengthen resilience capacity of vulnerable
populations, livelihoods and ecosystem .
Strategic Focus Area 2: Work on actions that
reduce existing greenhouse gases through biosequestration
Overall Objective: Improve resilience capacity of
household through improved ecosystem services,
improved land productivity and income through the
sale of ER
Focus Activities
• Enhance farmland productivity through improved tree coverage
using FMNR on both on and off farm degraded land.
• Promote efficient technology to improve access to clean energy,
reduce work load, respiratory disease and deforestation.
• Ensure formation and strengthening of community user groups
(cooperatives) responsible for sustainable forest mgt.
• Strengthen partnership in working with all stakeholders at each
level.
• Inter and intra sectorial integration across the programs (health,
education, food security).
• Compile lessons and sharing to scale up best practices.
Initiatives include
• Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)
• Introduction of the FMNR technique to increase community
ownership and increase afforestation reforestation (promoted
in 45 Woredas 2014)
• Afforestation Reforestation as per CDM &
Voluntary Market standard
• Total 3230 ha has been recovered (Humbo,2728ha & Sodo
503 ha)
• 10,161 people organized through Cooperatives (12 forest
cooperatives in place)
• 56,529 total population indirectly benefitting, while restoring
3230 ha
• Scaling up of FMNR into 75 woredas (ADPs) by 2015
Restoration of Humbo Mountain
using FMNR
Prior to the intervention the site was open for access and trees
were cleared due to demand for firewood and charcoal production.
This has resulted in:
 Denuded mountain
 Shortage of firewood
 Soil erosion and flooding
 Large gully formation
 Silt loads, cobbles and
boulders on farm land
Key Project Interventions
To restore this degraded mountains, AR project funded by World
Vision and the World Bank began in 2006.
• Community Consultations
• Identification of Target
Community. Negatively
affected HHs identified and
mitigation strategies developed
• Internal border
demarcation to avoid users’
conflict and define legitimate
users
•Land Certification Land user
rights certification processed.
• Formation of Legal
Cooperatives Forest
Cooperatives legalized.
• Institutional Capacity
Building
• Training of Communities
on FMNR Techniques
• Refilling of open patchy
land with new seedlings
• Facilitation of Certification
• Emission Reduction
Purchase Agreement
facilitated
FMNR technique implemented
Map of project site belonging
to each forest coop
Achievements Before and
After
Community Appraising their
5 year investment plan
Benefits
Social
• Land user rights secured.
• Legal recognition of forest Cooperatives with written
bye laws.
• Increased community institutional capacity.
• Uptake of FMNR technique by the community.
• Awareness creation and knowledge gained.
• The burden and risk due to problem on accessing
flour mill has been reduced
Environmental
• Delivered 73,138.49t CO2e out of
165,000t CO2 e agreed to sale to
World Bank until 2017 and
145,000CER for voluntary market
with unit price 7.5USD
• 3230ha of barren hill restored and
covered with vegetation
• Decreased downstream soil erosion
and increased biodiversity,
• Individual house holds have
started integrating Agroforestry
trees into their farming system
… Environmental
• 1 new spring emerged
while13 dried springs have
been restored back a result
of the soddo Afforestation
reforestation project
• Ecotourism potential sites
at Soddo has been
identified and construction
of cultural Houses as
resting place for visitors is
under way
Economic Benefits
• Sustainable firewood from
pruned branches.
• Grass harvesting through
cut and carry.
• Income from carbon revenue
383514USD/transferred to
Humbo & 41560USD for
Soddo community.
• Income from sale of forest
seeds, honey, Apple seedlings,
Mill service.
• The 12 coops have
constructed grain store
Economic benefits
• 5/7 coops have installed Mill at
Humbo site,
• Soddo forest coops have raised
more than 90,000Birr over1.5years
time from sale of apple, honey,
firewood
• Currently at Soddo, apple seedlings
with a market value of >500,000Birr
available at nursery
• Union capital increased from
399,000-750,000 during one year
time
Lessons Learnt
 Transparent consultation at each level from the onset of the
project.
 Identifying the barriers and mitigating the affects.
 Community capacity building
 Ensuring land tenure rights and community ownership.
 Clear property rights and benefit sharing systems (grass, fire
wood, revenue).
 Ensure availability of by-laws on which they agreed to abide.
 Use technology that is simple, cost effective and replicable.
 Access to carbon credit helps community to develop sustainable
livelihood improvement options.
 Strengthen partnership with all actors.
 Establishment of responsible community institution
(Cooperative).
 Effective documentation
Aknowledgement
• WVAU for the financial and technical support
provided to this project
• World Bank’s BioCarbon Fund for technical
assistance and their financial support
• Humbo Woreda, wolaita zone and SNNPR State
for their administrative and technical support
from concerned sector office experts at all level
and
• The Federal EPA currently known as MEF for
their tremendous assistance through out the
process
Thank you!