Poster presented at the African Landscapes Dialogue in Addis Ababa, March 6-9, 2017, by Water and Land Resources Centre. #LandscapesDialogue

1. Terracing in Tegray
Towards Integrated Landscape Management in Ethiopia
Potentials
• Heterogenous biophysical
environment giving rise to diverse
ecosystems and ecosystem
functions (alt 120 m.bsl-4533
m.asl);
• Diverse socio-ecological mosaics
(diverse Indigenous knowledge;
diverse socio-economic activities)
Huge past experiences
and lessons on land
rehabilitation and
watershed management
(since the 1970s)
Conducive overarching policy frameworks for ILM (E.g., Constitution,
Environmental Policy and CRGE strategy) and several legislations enacted
by the Federal Government and Regional States; yet some of them
should be revised to address issues of ILM
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Challenges
• Predominance of sectoral approach in policy
formulation and implementation
• Challenges in harmonizing sectoral objectives and
collaborative agreements across actors
• Inadequate public-private relationship to support
ILM
• Conflict of interest or contradictions of policy
elements in the conservation and management of
specific ecosystem services, e.g. wetlands
• Inadequate knowledge and capacity in practicing
ILM and lack of documentation and share of
knowledge
• Multiple actors but weak collaboration;
Outlook
• Institutionalize Ethiopian Landscape Network
–Provide forum for actors to communicate
–Bring landscape actors closer to each other for synergy & collaboration
–Foster dialogue among actors
–Facilitate ILM policy and strategy
• Establish landscape platforms
• Support grass root Watershed Users’ Association to support ILM
implementation
• Document and share lessons/information
• Raise awareness and capacity on ILM
Policy (in the main) (6)
1. Ministry of Agriculture (MoA
2. Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity
(MoWIE)
3.Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MoCT)
4. Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority
(EWCA)
5. Abbay Basin Authority
6. Regional State Administration (law &NRM
advisors)
Research (6)
1. ARARI/Fishery, NRM
2. BDU/wet land/Hydrology
3. DTU/ Guna-Tana
4. DMU/Choke Mountain Chain
5. Gondar University
6. ICARDA/Maksegnit
Advocacy, Research and Implementation
(6)
1. NABU
2. EWNRA
3. SOS Sahel/PFM
4. ORDA
5. GIZ/Amhara
6. PHE Consortium
Policy and Implementation (7)
1.Bureau of Agriculture & Natural Resource
(BoANR)
2. Bureau of Water & Energy (BoWE)
3. Buerau of Culture, Tourism & Parks
(BoCTP)
4. Bureau of Environment Protection & Land
Use Administration (BoEPLUA)
5. Bahir Dar Municipality
7. Bureau of Health (BoH)
Private Business and Investors (3)
1. Flower farm/ Tanaflora
2. Hotels
3. Industries
Implementation (16)
1. Lake Tana Sub Basin Org.
2. Amhara regional Livestock Agency
3. Amhara design and supervision
4. Lake Tana Navigation Enterprise
5. AGP
6. SLMP/Amhara
7. CARE/Global Water Initiative
8. IFAD/Community based natural resource
mgt project
9. Koga Irrigation
10. Amhara Forest Enterprise
11. WaterAid
12. Tana Belese IWR devt project
13. Agro –BiG (on value chain)
14. EEPCo/Tana-Belese Hydro power
15. ENIDP –Ethiopian Nile Irrigation Devt
project
16. Wareda (admin, agriculture, water,
health,)
1. Civic Societies (6)
2. Water Users Association/cooperatives
3. Tour Operators Association
4. Fishery Association
5. Watershed committee?
6. Eco-tourism and biodiversity
conservation society
7. Form for Environment
International/Bilateral Organizations (5)
1. UNESCO
2. WFP
3. FAO/Amhara
4. UNDP
5. IFAD
Advocacy (1)
1. Religious Institution/Monastery
2. Civic associations (Youth, Women, etc)
Entire Residents
1. Farmers, Urban dwellers, etc
Successful gully rehabilitation in Debr
Mewi, Micro-watershed, 2016 Amhara
Harena Forest, Harena Bulik, Bale
Agro-ecological zones of Ethiopia