The Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network, Addis Ababa University (HoA-REC&N-AAU) is a peculiar regional organization established to bridge the gap between policy, knowledge and practice in environmental matters of the Horn of Africa region. The organization is serving as a regional multi-stakeholder platform of knowledge exchange whereby academia, policy-decision makers and practitioners...
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Integrated Land use and Community Development: a pilot project in the CRV.
The HoAREC&N-AAU recently, in collaboration with Arsinegele Nature Conservation Environment Development Association( ANCEDA), developed the project -” Integrated landuse and community development pilot project in the CRV “ mainly in the Shashemene and Shalla weredas of the West Arsi Zone, Oromia regional State. One of the key catchments in the project area, the Jama-Urji Mountain ...
Jama-Urji Farmers Managed Forestry Project
Brief summary Deforestation and forest degradation have been a long standing component of environmental degradation in East Africa. In Ethiopia, the government has introduced the Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) strategy, in part, to address deforestation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, the Oromia Regional State of Ethiopia was planning to start a jurisdictional REDD+...
West Guji Cookstove Distribution Project
West Guji zone is one of the coffee producing zones of Oromia region, Ethiopia where local communities are dependent on traditional cooking. The forest cover is degrading at an alarming rate by human pressure leading to rapid deforestation, low productivity and high indoor air pollution that causes serious health impact. To alleviate this problem, Oromia...
HoAREC&N-AAU held a stakeholders consultation workshop on East African Afforestation, Reforestation and Re-vegetation Program (EARRP) and the Jama-Urji Farmers Managed Forestry Project
The consultative workshop held on August 27 and 28/2021 in Hawassa town was attended by more than 40 participants including the higher official delegates from EFCCC and OEFCC-Authority, the six forest cooperative representatives, the local administrations from Zone to kebele, experts from relevant government offices, local CBOs, senior staffs of Wondogenet Forestry College, HoAREC&N-AAU and...
Project expeditor meeting conducted on the establishment of an independent ILDP institution in GPNRS.
The meeting was held on August 18/ 8/2021 in Addis Ababa to discuss and forward direction towards expediting the urgent and critical activities in the ILDP phase-II project activity plan. The meeting, in the presence of H.E Mr. Thankuay Jock, V. President of the GPNRS, was attended by more than 25 participants assigned from the...
HoA-REC&N conducted its first Annual Review Meeting on the HoA-ESR project
The Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network (HoA-REC&N) conducted its first Annual Review Meeting on the HoA-ESR project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at HoA-REC&N headquarters in Gullele Botanic Garden on July 15, 2021. The review meeting sought to update the donor, SIDA on progress in the year 2020 and onwards in the implementation...
World Environment Day High-level Dialogue forum
Media reflections on the World Environment Day High-level Dialogue forum organized by PHE Ethiopia Consortium in collaboration with partners