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Modelling Integration of Biodiversity Management and Sustainable Livelihoods in Awi Zone

Grantee Name: Bees for Development Ethiopia

Hotspot
Eastern Afromontane
Location
Ethiopia
Amount
$19,997
Dates
Mar 2015 – Sep 2016
Keywords
Livelihoods, Poverty

Demonstrate how the challenges of degeneration of biodiversity and land degradation, livelihood insecurity of poor households and landless rural youth, and the interplay between natural resources degradation and poverty can be addressed in Awi Zone; and work to ensure forest resources and key endangered tree species can be rehabilitated and sustainably managed by the agrarian community of two kebeles of Dangila Wereda while improving livelihoods.

Strategic Direction :

1 Mainstream biodiversity into wider development policies, plans and projects to deliver the co-benefits of biodiversity conservation, improved local livelihoods and economic development in priority corridors.

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