Since April 2014, Climate Focus has been implementing a World Bank-funded publication that develops legal and institutional frameworks for the implementation of the national REDD+ program and the jurisdictional landscape program of Oromia. The publication supports the Government of Ethiopia in achieving REDD+ readiness and in creating a framework for the implementation of REDD+ in Ethiopia and Oromia, and in preparing a results-based transaction for the Oromia Forested Landscape Carbon Finance Publication.
Our team, together with national experts, has been closely cooperating with the government, facilitating presentations and discussions, and actively participating in various government workshops and World Bank missions. At both the national and regional levels activities include: devising detailed implementation arrangements for REDD+ related operations (e.g. intersectoral coordination, MRV and safeguards), REDD+ strategic options in different sectors, as well as recommendations for policy and legal reforms. In addition, the team is developing a framework for the allocation of REDD+ incentives and benefit-sharing at the level of landscape interventions.
The team is currently in the process of finalizing its report and assessment.
