Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
25 in-person participants from government organizations, research institutes, and forest-dependent communities, plus 5 online participants from overseas participated in the Synthesis Workshop in Ethiopia, co-organized by CIFOR-ICRAF and the REDD+ Secretariat of the Ethiopian Forestry Development (EFD) at the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture. In keeping with the multi-level and participatory research themes of the project, participants came from institutions at the International, Federal, Regional, Zonal, Woreda and Kebele (village) levels.
The “Transparent Monitoring in Practice: Supporting post-Paris land use sector mitigation” project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), supports developing nations in enhancing their Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems. The project operates in Côte d’Ivoire, Papua New Guinea, Peru, and Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, the project integrates open-source tools and TM concepts into the national MRV system, focusing on biomass assessment and community involvement.
The workshop:
- Presented findings from the research in the four case study countries, with a focus on activities in Ethiopia
- Provided updates on the UNFCCC’s Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)
- Shared lessons from forest data sharing and participatory MRV in other projects
- Discussed participant experiences and collected their feedback and recommendations
Presentations link:
- Hannes Böttcher, Oeko-Institut: Transparent monitoring in practice – overview of a global research project.
- Cristina Urrutia, Oeko-Institut: Enhanced transparency framework – what it means for countries like Ethiopia.
- Arun Pratihast, Wageningen University: PERU: Participatory monitoring tools and integration into REDD+ projects.
- Steffen Fritz, IIASA: COTE D’IVOIRE: Transparency in deforestation from cocoa value chain – implications for coffee in Ethiopia.
- Robert Masolele, Wageningen University: AFRICA: Estimating activity data using publicly-available data sources.
- Ivy Amugune, OFESA: EAST and SOUTHERN AFRICA: Towards a common forest data sharing framework (OFESA project).
- Solomon Zewdie and Stibniati Atmadja, CIFOR: Multilevel MRV – concepts, definitions, actor types.
- Mengistu Beyessa and Manuel Boissiere, CIFOR-ICRAF: Participatory MRV – Current local engagement in forest restoration.