Ethiopia Climate Action Through Landscape Management Program for Results

Start & End Date: 2019-2023

Country/Countries: Ethiopia

Multilateral Institution(s) Involved: World Bank

Land degradation still affects about one in five people in Ethiopia and is a significant drag on rural growth and poverty reduction. Ethiopia’s highly climate-sensitive economy and low adaptive capacity make it among the most vulnerable to climate change.  Furthermore, the intersection of land management, rights, and use is a key development issue for millions of rural Ethiopians facing water, food, land tenure and livelihood insecurities. While Ethiopia has achieved positive results in addressing land degradation, for a transformative and lasting scale-up of SLM interventions, national, regional and local institutions need to be strengthened to expand this process, and to maintain restored landscapes over the long term.

The CALM Program for Results in Ethiopia aims to increase adoption of sustainable land management practices and to expand access to secure land tenure in non-rangeland rural areas. It is funded by the WBG and implemented by Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture.The program will help Ethiopia address international and national policy commitments that seek to address climate resilience and mitigation goals and promote the sustainable management of natural resources. The program includes the objective of enhancing the management of natural resources and climate risks through improved natural resources and forest management, scaling-up the Government of Ethiopia (GoE’s) SLM program and addressing land tenure through the issuance of land use certificates. The program will also address the World Bank’s high-level corporate priorities on climate change which aim to increase the level of ambition and commitments on both adaptation and resilience. The program will make a substantial contribution to addressing priorities of the World Bank’s Africa climate business plan now in its fourth year of implementation.

Altough not finished, the project has helped to increase the area of landholdings in targeted areas that are securely registered by 3900% already overachieving its end target by far. The share of securely registered landholdings held by a woman either individually or jointly with a man is 75% with an end target of 81% in 2024.