ETHIOPIA

The Oromia Forested Landscape Program aims to reduce deforestation and net

greenhouse gas emissions from land use in forested landscapes in the region by ad-

dressing the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation at a large scale.

Forest Cover: Around 60% of to-tal national forest cover.

Program results

will be measured

across the Oromia

State, while up-

front funding will

be targeted in 42

priority woredas. The Oromia Forested Landscape Program can promote increased coordination of activities across the landscape.

The BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (ISFL) program in Oromia recogniz-

es the trade-offs and synergies between different land uses that may compete in a jurisdiction — such

as agriculture, energy, and forest protection — and identifies integrated solutions that serve multiple

objectives. The Oromia Forested Landscape Program (OFLP) targets carbon mitigation results and

offers incentives for social and environmental land-use projects in the region.

Managed and implemented by Oromia Regional State, OFLP will contribute to a transformational

change in how landscapes are managed. The benefits of such activities go beyond emission reduc-

tions to deliver multiple benefits including poverty reduction and resilient livelihoods, biodiversity con-

servation, and water provisioning services important for Ethiopia’s current and future energy profile.

OFLP will foster equitable and sustainable low carbon development mainly through a series of state-

wide and local enhancements to institutions, incentives and information to drive investment to scale

(enabling environment). The program will also serve as a coordination framework, enabling Oromia to

mobilize, coordinate and scale up funding from several different sources as well as harmonize efforts

to implement the country’s economic and green growth initiatives at the regional level.

World Bank Climate Change Group May 2015

OROMIA FORESTED LANDSCAPE PROGRAM

Program

Activities

Contributors to the BioCarbon Fund

ISFL will provide two sources of fund-

ing to Ethiopia that would be strategi-

cally packaged together as follows:

Upfront mobilization grant to fund

the promotion of an enabling envi-

ronment to help achieve the pro-

gram goals, including demonstra-

tion activities in energy, agriculture

and forestry.

Results-based payments for car-

bon emission reductions: a pledge

to pay for results for carbon emis-

sion reductions from the Oromia

regional state.

Public-Private Partnership

The BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (ISFL)

understands the important role that the private sector plays in encourag-

ing smarter land use and reducing deforestation and forest degradation

– and that the private sector can have a pivotal role in scaling-up sus-

tainable practices in emerging markets.

In Oromia the program will focus on partnering with private firms in-

volved in the coffee supply chain to help “forest-proof” the sourcing of

commodities and redirect market forces towards more sustainable land

management practices.

Program to focus on private sector partners along the coffee supply chain.

Potential program components and activities

Local-level action State-level action

Landscape planning

Extension services

Demonstration activities in en-

ergy, agriculture, and forestry

Marketing for alternative

household energy

Advisory services for communi-

ty natural resources based en-

terprises

Establish and implement a

Strategic Framework for the

program

Resource mobilization, tech-

nical assistance and forest

governance support

Contribution to Measurement,

Reporting and Verification sys-

tem, GIS capability; communi-

cations support

Oromia state forest area