| Project Detail |
Overall objective: By 2030 contribute to achieving ecosystem neutral green house gas emission with clear and monitorable adaptation co-benefits.
Project objective: By Year 8, CO2 removals from the forest subsector are increased by at least 7% via sustainable climate adaptive forestry investments and fuelwood energy efficiency with effective involvement of communities.
Expected results
Component 1 (Climate change mitigation and adaptation through forest investments and technology transfer):
By Year 8, at least 2.5% of degraded forestland is restored and sustainably managed following a climate adaptive methodology.
Component 2 (Promoting forest sustainability reducing forest degradation drivers):
By Year 6, fuelwood consumption per energy unit output of targeted rural communities is optimized and decreased by at least 30%.
Component 3 (Strengthening governance of forest resources and climate change’s impact management at community as well as local and central government levels):
By Year 8, relevant stakeholders (including Hayantar and local communities) are enabled to adopt effective governance and adaptive management of forests
and related ecosystem services.
Hayantar is under the subordination of the State Forest Committee. Main functions of Hayantar are to ensure control, protection, conservation of biodiversity, restoration, re/afforestation and efficient use of state forests and forest lands.
Target group / Beneficiaries
In terms of adaptation, the project will target the rural population of two provinces: Lori (105 rural communities in eight municipalities) and Syunik (102 rural communities in seven municipalities), accounting for 377,308 people as direct beneficiaries.
Furthermore, the projects beneficiaries will be ministries, institutions, civil society organisations, the private sector, the Environmental Project Implementation Unit, Hayantar State Non-Commercial Organisation under the subordination of the State Forest Committee, State Forest Monitoring Center, World Wildlife Fund Armenia. |
