From the CCAFS communicating carbon project in Nairobi, Kenya in October.

1. World vision Ethiopia, Humbo
Assisted natural regeneration project
by Hailu Tefera
hailu_tefera@wvi.org
Communicating Carbon Workshop
12-14 October 2011
Nairobi, Kenya

2. Project Location
• Located south west
of the country
380km away from
the capital city

3. Local Context
Prior to the project, the site was
open for access.
All tree species were cleared due
to demand for
•timber,
•Firewood
• charcoal production
The mountain became
denuded
These has result in
•soil erosion, flooding and
large gully formation in
down stream farm land
• coverage of farm land
with silt loads, cobbles and
boulders

4. Cont…
• Area 2728ha,Managed by 7 forest
development and protection
legally established cooperatives
who are living adjacent to project
site
• Each cooperative has been given
land user right certificate by the
government
• Each forest cooperative has a
member of 400-870 house holds
How many men and women?
• Technique we are using is
protecting the degraded hill from
human and animal interference to
help naturally regenerate from
live stamps and soil seed
banks, only 270ha of it is planted
with new seedlings

5. Describing Carbon Sequestration
• Site identification together with district level government staff
• Consultation workshops were conducted at Zone level-
participants( federal, regional, zonal and district level gov’t body
and community representative on the concept of carbon
• The workshop is repeated at district level with more
participants from the community
• once we get community and gov’t consent, various discussions
were organized at village level to get the consent of majority of
a community and discussion on the impact of land
degradation, causes and consequences on yield reduction, flood
hazards, local climate change and possible measures has been
carried out
• Documenting minute and every piece of decision done by
farmer

6. Non-Financial Benefits
 Environmental
• Increased vegetation
cover
• Decrease in soil and
wind erosion,
• increased infiltration
• increased in
biodiversity-wild lives
have started to come
back to home
• Improved microclimate

7. Social benefits
• Recognition of user rights of communities to
manage the forest
• Uptake of the FMNR technique
• Awareness creation and increased knowledge
• Legal recognition and written bye laws
 Partnership benefits
• It has brought innovative partnership among Humbo
community, the Ethiopian Government, World Vision
Ethiopia, World Vision Australia and World Bank.
• This innovative partnership approach generated
learnings that can be leveraged for the development of
similar projects in the future in Ethiopia and other parts
of Africa.

8. Financial Benefits
•Besides the obvious tree re-
growth, people have benefited from
•Fire wood from pruned branch
•Grass harvesting through cut and
carry
•Income from Carbon revenue. Out
of the total 880,295t C02 expected
to be sequestered, only 165,000t is
sold to World bank and $726,000
expected to come to community in
the 1st ten years
-(1st payment 34,184USD/ 579,029
ETB transferred to community &
have started implementing their plan
-The 2nd $48,915 on the way
-communities are allowed to cut and
sell 50% of the trees at 11th and 21st
year

9. Languages we used to convey carbon issue
• to convey that release of C02 is
harmful, we used smoke as a result
of wood burning, smoke coming out
of car, factory etc as an example
• We tried to educate communities
on benefits before and the
potential benefits after project
specially co benefits
• We have used different tools to
increase awareness of the
community T-
shirt, posters, environment
club, review meeting, inviting
community representative to
national CC workshops, experience
sharing trip and creating discussion
forum after each visit, organizing
special event eg. environment
day, involve students in the school
(songs, poems), consultation
meeting, news letter,

10. Tools most useful to explain the meaning of carbon
sequestration
• drawings- diagrams and sketches are more simple to be
understood by farmers please bring examples
• films/drama/theater- the farmers easily understand the
process while relaxing
• radios/TV- This days most farmers have at least radios
that would enable them to access the information. In
addition to that information transferred through radio
and TV are considered seriously by the farmers
• Consultations: will give every farmers the chance to
openly discuss, ask and comment. Through this two way
discussion the farmers understand the concept

11. challenges and opportunities we have faced on
our communication system
• Gathering of big number of community at a very
earlier period will not help the community
understand the concept. The reasons are:
– Farmers are always hesitant and they may be mislead by
wrong perception of a single person that may lead them to
rebel
– There was a time that they perceived as if their land was to
be given to some external body and their reaction was not
good
• the solution was discontinuing the meeting and
continued some other time together with all
concerned govt body in small groups and then slowly
to large groups

12. Concept of cost benefit analysis
• [the project was conveying the concept of cost
benefit analysis focusing on the future
environmental and economic benefits.
• educating the farmers on the multiple benefits of
forest – fire wood, grass, NTFP and timber
product, advantages and disadvantages of forest on
agricultural production, livestock e.t.c, sustainable
forest management
• taking adequate time until they understand the
future benefits of the forest and we were telling
them the minimum expected revenue than the
maximum one
• identifying and addressing the immediate needs of
the vulnerable ones

13. Cont..
• Challenge: community over expectation due to information
from wrong sources
• How we addressed:
– frequent discussion, consultation to clear ambiguity
– negation with the buyer to release payment before
verification
– Care full follow up not to fail due to lack of carbon
compliance
• Opportunities
– being the first large AR project money people visited the
area and that has unanimously increased community
awareness

14. Monitoring, Reporting, and
Verification (MRV)
• we have conducted training on the monitoring plan prepared.
• Training has been given on modality of payment, compliance
and consequence of week performance from the beginning
– We educated they by synchronizing with the experience they
have- eg Auditing and consequence of audit finding
– Don’t talk much about money aspect, rather on contribution
to sustainable development
• We didn’t tell them only the opportunity i.e money aspect) but
emphasized on the requirement.
• Participated on practical data collection, boundary
delineation, base line carbon measurement and so on from the
beginning and that has helped them to understand the
seriousness of the project

15. Comment on effective communication tool
on MRV
• Communicate them with simple language that they are familiar- eg. Auditing
• care must be taken not to exaggerate things
• communicate clearly to communities from the beginning
• give chance to comment on MRV to collect their feed back
• don’t frustrate but tell them the reality and involve them exercise the measurement
technique
challenges
-desperation/lack of confidence
-quality of data, document handling, recording
-seeking special benefit those who are regularly involved on monitoring and data
collection
How did you address the challenge
– Educate by doing
– Refreshment training
– Working in group (government expert, project staff) until they become expertise
– Close follow up and encouragement, covering their lunch cost, but once they
tested it now they are energetic

16. Legal issues
• Languages used to explain contracts between farmers and
buyer was English and then interpreted into local language
• discussed one by one on the draft document with the farmers
and finalized incorporating their comment
• Focus on roles and responsibilities and consequence to failure
to deliver
• Sign on sub Emission Reduction Agreement
between, WVE, government and each
community/cooperative
• Conflict resolution training has been given for religious
leaders and elderly community members, forest cooperative
leaders using the local/ cultural values
• Communication tools used to communicate legal issue was by
trying to explain the traditional norm and culture that they
have been using to take any remedial measure for actions that
are illegal

17. Thank you!