| Overview : The project was designed to secure biodiversity and carbon benefits while simultaneously strengthening the resilience of livelihoods, through forest landscape restoration and upscaling clean technologies in four Districts of Amayaga region namely Kamonyi, Ruhango, Nyanza and Gisagara. The project has three major outcomes: a) Forest restoration plans with institutional and legislation frameworks guiding afforestation, natural resources management and agriculture; b) Individual and institutional capacities enhancement for planning and implementing gender sensitive forest landscape restoration strategies supported by knowledge management; c) Implementation of Forest Landscape Restoration plans secures 555 ha of natural forests, puts 300 ha of forests under participatory forest management, increases productivity of agriculture and plantation forests on 25,000 ha and 1,000 ha respectively; and reduces wood consumption by at least 25%. The project will deliver four Forest Landscape Restoration plans covering 263,270 ha, leading to avoided emissions of 4,700,825 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in five years and 12,950,839 tons in indirect GHG emissions avoided in 20 years. Executed by the Rwanda Environment Management Agency in partnership with key Ministries, the six-year project total cost is US$ 32,706,365 consisting of a GEF Grant of $6,213,538, UNDP Grant of $1,000,000 and Government of Rwanda Co-fin of $25,493,365. The implementation is supported by the technical assistance from Rwanda Forestry Authority (RFA). |
