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
- Support poverty alleviation and climate change mitigation
- Inform Ethiopia and international climate change and forestry policy efforts
- Advance the state of academic knowledge
- 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?
Project status
Active
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Financed by
The World Bank