MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE National

MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE National REDD+ Secretariat Multi-stake holder Consultation of the National REDD+ Strategy (Non-Government stakeholders) April 20/2017 Bin International Hotel Bishoftu

The need for consultation → In puts from relevant stakeholders help refine the strategy → Proper consultation of the strategy with relevant stakeholders enhance ownership and buy-in → The development of a national REDD+ Strategy/Action Plan should be based on the full participation and consultation of all concerned stakeholders (UNFCCC Guidance)

The need for consultation The engagement process so far (lasted for 3 years) Phase I Ø Initiated in May 2014 Ø A team of Ethiopian experts together with the Core team compiled the zero draft (November 2014) Ø Zero draft presented in a side event at COP 20 (Lima, Peru) Ø Zero draft commented by the Strategy TF & developmental partners (WB, DFID, Norway Embassy) Ø Zero draft finalized (February 2015)

The need for consultation Phase II Ø Draft strategy compiled based on inputs from National/regional empirical studies (April 2015) Ø Draft Strategy commented by strategy TF & partners (CIFOR, WB) (June/July 2015) Ø Draft final strategy presented in a side event at COP 21 (Paris) Phase III Ø Draft final strategy commented by the strategy TF (November 2015) Ø Final strategy (version 1) presented in Ethiopia & WB joint mission Ø Final strategy compiled (August 2016) Ø Final strategy (version 1. 1) presented to Ethiopia & WB joint mission (April 2016)

Vision & Mission of the Strategy Vision of the National REDD+ Strategy (NRS) To see that REDD+ contributes to 50% of the emission reduction targets of the CRGE strategy and Ethiopia's NDC greening targets by 2030, while maximizing national co-benefits thereby adding to the global climate change mitigation efforts.

Vision & Mission of the Strategy Mission of the National REDD+ Strategy (NRS) v Reducing GHG emissions and increase carbon removals in the forest sector by implementing policies, laws and regulations, v Increasing investments for enhancement of conservation of forest resources and forestoration v Improving the functioning and capacity of national and sub-national institutions for the realization of the green growth vision of Ethiopia, v Enhancing REDD+ co-benefits including better livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, and improved hydrological functions of landscapes.

Alignment of the NRS with objectives of national policies and strategies Broader National Objectives REDD+ Objectives Contribute to CRGE goals CRGE/NDC Objectives of achieving net zero Building a green economy with emissions by 2030 zero net emissions by 2030 through implementation through the implementation of of forestry strategies. sectoral emissions abatement strategies that also improve resilience to climate change. Contribute to the GTP-2 GTP Objectives goals of increasing the Boosting agricultural forest cover of Ethiopia productivity, strengthening the from 15. 5% to 20%, industrial base, and fostering improving local export growth with the community livelihoods objective of lifting Ethiopia's and enhance the economy to middle income contribution of forests to status by 2025. the national economy, Linkage between REDD+ and National objectives The forestry sector, with REDD+ as its major mitigation lever, will contribute 50% of the total emission reduction. Sustainable financing through REDD+ will support investment in forest management, forest conservation, and forestoration. The forest sector contributes 11. 2% to the national GDP

Implementation Goals Phase I: Short- term Implementation goals (2016 -2020) Preparing the national REDD+ action plan; Improving Enabling environment Operationalize the NFMS; Mobilizing investments; Designing & implementing REDD+ PAM To achieve a 25% reduction in national deforestation rate, consolidating experiences forestoration Phase II: Medium- Increased investments & scaling-up of REDD+ term Implementation PAMs at national scale; operationalizing RBP at sub -national level, goals (2021 -2025) Net deforestation becomes zero, Roll-out REDD+ PAMs at full national scale; Phase III: Long-term operationalizes national RBPs; Ethiopia’s forests /land implementation Plan area will become a net carbon sink. (2026 -2030) Achieve 50% of national emission reduction target

Drivers of deforestation & forest degradation Challenges to Afforestation, reforestation & restoration

Drivers & agents of deforestation & Forest Degradation Drivers Type of Drivers Agents Direct Small-scale agricultural Small-holder farmers, drivers of conversion new settlers DD Large-scale agricultural Implementing conversion (investment) institution/Investors Increased wood extraction for Illegal loggers, local fuel and construction community Livestock grazing Pastoralists, farmers

Drivers & agents of deforestation & Forest Degradation Drivers Type of Drivers Underlying Lack of long term finance and human drivers of resources to support the effective DD implementation of forest sector plans, policies and laws Limited governance and monitoring capacities of institutions in the forest sector Unclear tenure/ forest user rights (including carbon rights) Low levels of stakeholder participation and involvement in the forest sector Absence of clear benefit sharing mechanisms Agents Government policy makers /implementing institutions Implementing institutions Policy makers/ Implementing institution , ,

Drivers & agents of deforestation & Forest Degradation Drivers Type of Drivers Agents Underlying Lack of adequate incentives for private Policy makers/Implementing drivers of sector to invest in forestry institution, the private DD sector Population growth coupled with rural poverty increasing dependence on forest resources Absence of Land Use Planning PFM related implementation gaps Overlapping institutional mandates and inappropriate delegation of mandate Overall-economy Policy makers/ Implementing institution

A/R and Restoration challenges Type of Constraints Driver Lack of incentives for involving private A/R and Restoration investments in forestry development constraints Absence of out grower schemes for small holder plantations Low seedling survival and poor forest establishment due to technical and management problems In appropriate species-site matching Absence of land use plans/laws for land development according its capability and national needs limiting availability of for A/R Lack of technical backstopping from national to lower level actors Lack of coordination among relevant stakeholders Agents Policy makers/Private investors Policy makers/Implementing institution/Research institutions Implementing institution/ Research institutions Policy makers Implementing institution/ Research institutions Implementing institution

Strategic options to address drivers of DD and Challenges to Afforestation, reforestation & restoration

Strategic Options to address drivers of DD & A/R constraints No Sectors Strategic investments Targets* (2030) 1 Forestry (1) Improve management of natural forests and woodlands through institutional and human capacity building and implementing forest management schemes such as PFM/REDD+ that maintain forest cover: (2) Increase afforestation, reforestation, and sustainable forest management to increase carbon sequestration in forests and woodlands and expand forest resource base for economic purposes: Enhance and/ or incentivize appropriate afforestation/ reforestation activities by communities and private holders on public degraded lands Enhance the timber supply sources from private and community plantations through the conversion of degraded land. Promote area closure through the rehabilitation of degraded pastureland, farmland, and degraded highlands Enhance the capacity of institutions and the public for integrated fire management in fire hot spot areas 4, 000 ha 3, 000 ha 1, 500, 000 ha 10, 000 ha

Strategic Options to address drivers of DD & A/R constraints No Sectors Strategic investments Targets* (2030) 2 Energy (1) Reduce demand for fuel wood via the dissemination and usage of fuel-efficient stoves and/or alternative energy technologies for lighting, cooking and baking (such as electric, solar, LPG, or biogas stoves) leading to reduced forest degradation Support and promote energy efficient cook stoves 3, 000 HHs Promote biogas units as appropriate Support and promote alternative and renewable 1, 000 HHs energy sources such as electricity and solar technologies 801, 464 HHs (2) Encourage and/or incentivize communities and 1, 270, 000 ha private sector to engage in sustainable woody biomass production for charcoal and firewood

Strategic Options to address drivers of DD & A/R constraints No Sectors Strategic investments Targets* (2030) 3 Create new agricultural land in degraded areas through small, Agriculture medium, and large-scale irrigation to reduce the pressure on forests if expansion of the cultivated area becomes necessary (Yield-increasing techniques) Irrigated agriculture on new agricultural land from low carbon zones Mechanization (Small-scale and large-scale farming) Intensify agriculture through usage of improved inputs and better residue management resulting in a decreased requirement for additional agricultural land that would primarily be taken from forests (productive but low emitting techniques for Agriculture) Soil carbon storage and management Nitrogen Management Tillage and residue management Agro-forestry Water management techniques 4, 373, 333 ha 2, 515, 717 ha

Strategic Options to address drivers of DD & A/R constraints No Sectors Strategic investments Targets* (2030) 4 Livestock • • • Rangeland pastoral land management Improved livestock production system Over sowing of native pastures with improved grass and legume species and bush clearing/thinning from grazing fields Improved forage varieties with better management techniques Improving the supply of forage seed by making land credit services available Improving quality of crop residues using urea and urea -molasses mixture treatment Enabling Environment (put into effect Ethiopian feed proclamation) Improved incentives for Investors to take part in large scale commercial feed production Enhancing and intensification of animal mix Live stock value-chain efficiency improvement To be worked out in the sectoral action plan

Measures to Address the Underlying Drivers and Improve Enabling Environment Issues/Underlying Causes Strategies/Measures for Addressing Underlying Causes and Enablers for Improved Forest Management Weak law enforcement of forest policies and laws Strengthen law enforcement activities to combat deforestation and forest degradation through increased capacities of the forestry institutions at various levels Enhance the level of knowledge and awareness to the leadership, policy makers, development partners and the public Support the development and consolidation of forest institutional structure down to grass roots levels Mobilize development partners to cooperate in building knowledge and human resources related to forestry, land use and climate change governance and investments Lack of long term finance and human resources to support the effective implementation of forest sector plans, policies and laws

Measures to Address the Underlying Drivers and Improve Enabling Environment Issues/Underlying Strategies/Measures for Addressing Underlying Causes and Enablers for Improved Forest Management Limited governance and monitoring capacities of institutions in the forest and related NRM sectors Unclear tenure/ forest user rights (including carbon rights) and absence of clear benefit sharing mechanisms Identify, demarcate and enhance the management of forest conservation priority areas Enhance the system and technical capacities for data collection, management, processing, consolidation, quality assurance and quality control for the forest and land use sectors Determine in clear legal terms individual, community and state entitlements (rights and duties) over land; Ensure forest land tenure security through forest land classification/ zoning, demarcation, and registration Promote equitable alternative livelihoods development programs for local community to optimize diversified cobenefits from forest resources and contribute to reduced DD. Develop a fair and equitable benefit sharing schemes for distributing benefits from forest management activities

Measures to Address the Underlying Drivers and Improve Enabling Environment Issues/Underlying Causes Low levels of stakeholder participation and involvement in the forest sector Lack of adequate incentives for private sector to invest in forestry Strategies/Measures for Addressing Underlying Causes and Enablers for Improved Forest Management Encourage public engagement, participation, and multistakeholder consultations on forestry and land use planning and implementation Improve capacities, knowledge and awareness of the relevant stakeholders to implement PAM to reduce DD • Encourage the law making entities to provide for more incentives that encourage sustainable timber harvesting by private holders and communities • Promote effective and equitable sustainable management and use of forests, forestlands and nontimber forest products

Measures to Address the Underlying Drivers and Improve Enabling Environment Issues/Underlying Causes Strategies/Measures for Addressing Underlying Causes and Enablers for Improved Forest Management Population growth coupled Promote forest based and alternative livelihoods with rural poverty increasing Support activities for increased and sustainable dependence on forest agricultural production resources Absence of Land Use Planning Contribute to consolidation and harmonization of legal frameworks for use of land, Encourage the process of knowledge generation and policy making for devoting a proportion of the country's territory (jurisdiction) forestry development Support the immediate demarcation and gazetting of priority forests and wildlife parks in both high forest and dry woodland areas

Measures to Address the Underlying Drivers and Improve Enabling Environment Issues/Underlying Causes Strategies/Measures for Addressing Underlying Causes and Enablers for Improved Forest Management Support the process of clarifying Overlapping institutional mandates among government mandates and inappropriate institutions and ensuring mandates delegation of mandate (e. g. , EIA) are provided to the right institutions Building the capacity of forestry and land use sectors at all levels to fully discharge their responsibility of ensuring the implementation of mitigation plans for minimizing the social and environmental impacts on forests and local communities

Measures to Address the Underlying Drivers and Improve Enabling Environment Issues/Underlying Causes Strategies/Measures for Addressing Underlying Causes and Enablers for Improved Forest Management Inadequate coordination Strengthen inter-setoral coordination through the creation of a high level multi-sectoral coordination among sectors resulting in platform mismanagement of land Establishing strong working ties between vertical and forest resources and horizontal REDD+ offices and making coordination among these agencies a legal necessity; Making REDD+ activities to be represented in each relevant sectoral, government agency; and Creating a working group including the national REDD+ secretariat, regional coordination units and the environmental NGOs. Support the process of policy harmonization in different sectors (e. g. , agricultural investment and forestry)

Measures to Address the Underlying Drivers and Improve Enabling Environment Issues/Underlying Causes Inadequate provision on Participatory Forest Management (PFM) Strategies/Measures for Addressing Underlying Causes and Enablers for Improved Forest Management Incorporate provisions for community forest ownership under the new Federal Forest Proclamation Encourage for more provisions in the new Forest proclamation for incentivizing communities from PFM activities Recognize legal status for PFM as an approach forest management in the country and define and respect community rights Encourage Public Private Partnership to get involved in efficient management of state commercial forests (FSR recommendation)

Measures to Address A/R & Restoration challenges A/R and Restoration challenges Strategies/Measures Enhance and/ or incentivize appropriate afforestation/ reforestation activities by communities and the private sector and silvicultural practices on state land Technical challenges (species-site Strengthen the role of academic institutions/research institutes in matching, post planting training, research and technology management, etc) development associated with forestry, land use and A/R Lack of incentives for involving private investments in forestry development

Implementation Framework Management Arrangement Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change State Minister Environment and CC Sector Federal REDD+ Technical Working Groups Federal REDD+ MRV/RL; REDD+ Strategy & SESA/ESMF Task Forces Regional REDD+ TWG State Minister Forest sector Federal REDD+ Steering Committee National REDD+ Secretariat Regional RCU host institution Regional REDD+ Coordination Units (RCUs) and Regional REDD+ Focal Persons Regional REDD+ Steering Committee

Institutional Arrangement Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change Federal Level Federal REDD+ Steering Committee (MEFCC Chair, Mo. FEC Co-Chair; National Planning Commission) REDD+ Secretariat Regional REDD+ TWG Federal REDD+ TWG Office of the Regional President/ Vice President RRCU will be housed in the Regional Admin Office Regional Level Regional REDD+ Coordination Unit Zonal Level Zonal REDD+ Focal person (Environment & Forestry office) coordinating line departments and housed in the zonal admin office Wereda REDD+ Steering Committee MEFCC, Mo. ANR, Mo. LF, , Mo. FEC, Wereda Environment & Forestry office performs /coordinates implementation Kebele Administration Kebele Level Kebele Development Agents Regional REDD+ Steering Committee Bureau of Agriculture & NR, MEFCC, Livestock, Energy, Land Administration, etc. Dept of Agriculture and NR, Office of Environment & Forestry; Livestock, Energy, Land Administration, etc. Wereda REDD+ Technical Working Group Office of Agriculture, Environment & Forestry, Livestock, Energy, Land Admin, Kebele administration, Das from Forestry, NRM, Livestock, Energy, etc.

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REDD+ Strategy Goals Addressing policy, legal and institutional issues related to land use and forest governance Establishment of strong institutional mechanisms for an effective cross-sectoral coordination Developing a robust, transparent and standard approach and methodologies for setting the baseline emissions and removals, and designing an effective MRV system for determining VERs and removals; Implementing safeguards program for ensuring that Ethiopia's REDD+ implementation observes globally acceptable S ES standards including a BSM, C & P plan & GRM Establishing mechanisms for active participation and engagement of a wide range of stakeholders including communities and the private sector Identifying needs to build national and sub-national capacity for REDD+ activities planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting at all levels; Promotion of knowledge generation and strengthening public awareness, communication and information sharing on REDD+ issues; Mobilizing resources (including non-results-based funding) and intensifying investments in forestry and establishing and operationalizing a transparent REDD+ financial management mechanism;