Forest Sector Institutional Reform and REDD+ in Ethiopia: Making Participatory Forest Management Pro-Poor

This is a non-EfD project that aims to evaluate how institutions can be crafted within both CCFs and REDD+ systems to achieve climate change, livelihood and poverty reduction goals using focus groups, field-based lab experiments and field-based stated preference experiments.

Specific Project Goals

1. Support poverty alleviation and climate change mitigation
2. Inform Ethiopia and international climate change and forestry policy efforts
3. Advance the state of academic knowledge
4. Shed light on the conditions needed for REDD+ to work in Ethiopia and other low-income countries.

Policy Questions the Project Hopes to Answer

• What income, equity or environmental tradeoffs might be associated with adapting the existing Ethiopia
• community forestry system to include climate benefits ?
• What institutional structures and levels of REDD+ payments would spur Ethiopian forest users to supply
• critical carbon sequestration services?
• What is the appropriate level of local-level decision-making?
• What benefit-sharing mechanisms are likely to be most appropriate?