Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  445
• Project status 2022
  Ongoing
• Project name
  Ecosystem restoration and valorisation by associations of landless farmers in the Tembien Highlands (North Ethiopia)
• Secondary name
  Ethiotrees – Supporting Landless Farmers in the Tembien Highlands
• Country
  Ethiopia
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2020
• Size (in hectare)
  541
• Start year
  ND
• End year
  2026
• Duration
  20
• Project description
  The EthioTrees project seeks to strengthen the protection of 541 hectares of exclosures in three villages (Gidmi Gestet, Meam Atali & Adi Lehtsi), which will result in a total carbon benefits of 5,537 tCO2 per year. The project is implemented by Belgian-Ethiopian association (the EthioTrees association), which has a legal and organizational framework in place. The EthioTrees association has been supporting communities in the three villages since 2016. EthioTrees project, which aimed at improving the livelihood of rural households could contribute to sustaining exclosures (naturally regenerated areas from which livestock and uncontrolled woodcutting are excluded), restoring degraded ecosystems and increasing ecosystem services. The EthioTrees association/project is also important in building local capacities and support the valuation of community-wide benefits such as the changes in carbon storage, flood reduction and non-timber forest production following establishing exclosures.
• Objective 1
  social development
• Objective 2
  biodiversity conservation
• Objective 3
  climate
• Deforestation drivers
  cattle grazing, local livelihoods
• Type of forest
  dry
• Project activity
  ARR
• Project Type
  ARR
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  ecosystem restoration
• Multiple locations?
  No
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Regional state : Tigray
• Jurisdiction level 2
  Zone : Dogua Tembien

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  2016-2036
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  166110
• Leakage is expected?
  yes
• Carbon pools included
  Above ground biomass | Soil organic carbon
• Gasses included
  N2O
• Reference period start year
  ND
• Reference period end year
  ND
• Carbon standard 1
  Plan vivo

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  certified
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  43070
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  http://www.planvivo.org/project-network/ethiotrees-tembien-highlands/
• Carbon standard 1 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2
  none
• Carbon standard 2 Progress
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3
  none
• Carbon standard 3 Progress
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Expiry date
  ND
• Source of information
  Plan vivo website: PDD and annual report https://mer.markit.com/br-reg/public/project.jsp?project_id=104000000014099 http://www.planvivo.org/project-network/ethiotrees-tembien-highlands/

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  Yes
• Monetary benefit type
  Conditional
• Monetary benefit detail
  Payments are indirectly linked to exclosure management performance, as the income from the sales of the certificates from any particular exclosure depends on the performance and will be allocated for investment in or near that exclosure. It has been agreed that all income will be used fully for investments in social or environmental projects that should benefit the local community.
• Provides employment?
  ND
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  tree planting
• Is there tenure clarification?
  ND
• Is there environmental education?
  Yes
• Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
  Yes
• Is there forest enhancement?
  Yes
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  ND
• Is there other community benefits?
  Yes