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This study explores the effectiveness of the monitoring and evaluation system for the Forest Landscape Restoration project under the REDD+ Investment Program in Ethiopia. The REDD+ Investment Program (RIP) was active from 2017-2022, with a budget of $75 million, implemented in 113 woredas across six regions and one city administration in Ethiopia.
This Working Paper is part of Forest and Landscape Restoration within Forests. Reach out to Yigremachew Seyoum Lemma for more information.
This Working Paper is part of Forest and Landscape Restoration within Forests. Reach out to Yigremachew Seyoum Lemma for more information.
Research to examine the key challenges that impact the effectiveness of the M&E system is crucial for providing guidance to policymakers, project managers, and practitioners to design a robust M&E system. Enhanced accountability and transparency provided through a robust M&E system play a key role in catalyzing the flow of capital to scale and expanding efforts to restore degraded forests and landscapes and realize targets outlined at global, continental, and national levels.
This study investigates the factors that determine the effectiveness of the M&E system of the FLR project under the REDD+ Investment Program (RIP) in Ethiopia (MEFCC 2017). The RIP, with a budget of US$75 million, was implemented from 2017 to 2022 in six regions and one city administration in Ethiopia, covering 113 woredas (administrative units equivalent to districts). The second phase of the RIP program has been implemented since 2023. The RIP has three main components: afforestation and reafforestation (FLR), reversing degradation and deforestation (DD), and forest sector transformation (FST), which is mandated to transform the forest sector through innovative models. This study focused on the M&E system of the RIP's FLR component (RIP-FLR), which was implemented in 54 woredas.
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