Conserving Biodiversity through Sustainable Land Management at Boreborit Watershed
The project aims to conserve and manage the biodiversity resources of the watershed around Choke area through integrated on-farm conservation approach. The mode of project implementation is by empowering the local community through awareness raising, training and practice and decentralization of all activities to watershed level in order to achieve improvements in key areas of environmental problems that affect their livelihoods. It also intends to address other associated environmental problems such as land degradation and climate change through soil and water conservation practices. The Choke Mountain is considered as the water tower of the Blue Nile Basin and it is an important biodiversity hotspot. Consequently, all those interventions are believed to contribute to sustainable land management, conservation of biological diversity in the locality and mitigation of climatic change at different levels by influencing the global climatic condition directly or indirectly. The project will be carried out for two years at Boreborit watershed in Namira Michael kebele, which is one of the watersheds in the upper part of the Choke Mountains. The project will promote sustainable land use practices, including improved agriculture, reforestation and establishment of a protected area for biodiversity conservation in Boreborit watershed on approximately 343 ha.
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Project Snapshot
Grantee:
Boreborit Natural Resources Development and Tourism Marketing Cooperative
Country:
Ethiopia
Area Of Work:
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Grant Amount:
US$ 18,167.00
Co-Financing Cash:
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 14,252.00
Project Number:
ETH/SGP/OP4/Y2/RAF/09/06
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
Project Characteristics and Results
Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods
As well as protecting the environment, project activities- such as bee keeping and producing fuel saving stoves- are designed to provide long term income generation.
Capacity - Building Component
Capacity building training is offered to community members and the CBO. Structures are put in place to build the physical capacity of the community
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Indicators
Biophysical
Hectares of globally significant biodiversity area protected or sustainably managed by project
10
Biophysical
Number of innovations or new technologies developed/applied
3
Biophysical
Number of innovations or new technologies developed / applied
200
Empowerment
Number of value added labels/certifications/quality standards received or achieved
40
Biophysical
Number of innovations or new technologies developed / applied
20
Livehood
Number of households who have benefited* from SGP project
15
SGP Country office contact
Mr. Dejene Biru Kekeba
Phone:
+251-115-540964/65
Fax:
+252-115-540963
Email:
Ms. Hirut Hussien Musellem
Email:
Address
P.O.Box 5580
Addis Ababa, East Africa
Addis Ababa, East Africa
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