Presentation by Endeshaw Kassa, Program Officer, of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus at the COP21 ICRAF side event on REDD+ and agroforestry

2. Why Land use transformation
st areas of hilly farm lands legally owned
her approaches like watershed development, mass mobilization,
ety net public works and NGO initiatives mostly focus on commu
ds
ost harvest open grazing problems
sible land degradation impacts
e impacts brought by resources allocated in land rehabilitation
erventions
velihood sources of vulnerable people compromised for the
proaches.

3. The possible way out
nd use transformation through temporary compensation
neficiaries with high risk score identified from our Risk Assessment
dings
greement reached with 10 beneficiaries on Share of resources and
sponsibilities
eneficiaries:
Ø Share free labour and carry all the tasks as per the agreed
bylaws
oject :
Ø Resource availability for area rehabilitation
Ø Avail budget for the temporary compensation:
For 10 farmers = 588 Euro/ha/ yr / which is only 176.4 Euro per far
for three years.
Ø Technical support
ocal government: part of the whole process

6. Results achieved
etter quality physical structures
credible survival and performance rates of seedlings and grass
plits
Run-off erosion totally controlled
Better sense of ownership
Biomass from grass and legumes
Bee keeping integrated, capacity built
ncome diversified / sheep breeding, sheep fattening, apiary and
ooking for other options/.
ncome of all beneficiaries have improved a lot
hared their experience to others

10. Challenges
inance mobilization.
olicy direction for using the available funds in the
istrict/region