Fostering tenure security for forest landscape restoration in Ethiopia: Creating enabling conditions for the 2018 Forest Proclamation

A critical review of federal land law in order to align it with the 2018 Forest Law, together with the corresponding regional land laws, will greatly facilitate implementation of the national forest law that recognizes community rights to forests. However, actualizing rights on the ground requires s...

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Autores principales: McLain, Rebecca, Kassa, Habtemariam, Lawry, Steven, Yazew, Belay
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Center for International Forestry Research 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/171225
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author McLain, Rebecca
Kassa, Habtemariam
Lawry, Steven
Yazew, Belay
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description A critical review of federal land law in order to align it with the 2018 Forest Law, together with the corresponding regional land laws, will greatly facilitate implementation of the national forest law that recognizes community rights to forests. However, actualizing rights on the ground requires strong political commitment and administrative support, and the existence of fair, secure, stable and accountable tenure systems. For this to happen, the state will need to fulfill its responsibilities of monitoring and regulating forest resource access and use, a task that will require strengthening communication and coordination across governance scales and sectors. Communities will need to strengthen their social networks, by building links with other forest-dependent communities and external organizations that can support them in their efforts to exert their forest rights. The goal and the challenge for Ethiopia’s current forest reform effort is to get the balance right between communities and the state in terms of how rights and governance functions are distributed, to enable the government to adapt to its new roles and ensure that communities receive the support they need to actualize their rights and discharge their forest management responsibilities as per agreed-upon management plans.
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spelling CGSpace1712252025-02-19T14:36:12Z Fostering tenure security for forest landscape restoration in Ethiopia: Creating enabling conditions for the 2018 Forest Proclamation McLain, Rebecca Kassa, Habtemariam Lawry, Steven Yazew, Belay tenure security land tenure tenure landscape environmental restoration A critical review of federal land law in order to align it with the 2018 Forest Law, together with the corresponding regional land laws, will greatly facilitate implementation of the national forest law that recognizes community rights to forests. However, actualizing rights on the ground requires strong political commitment and administrative support, and the existence of fair, secure, stable and accountable tenure systems. For this to happen, the state will need to fulfill its responsibilities of monitoring and regulating forest resource access and use, a task that will require strengthening communication and coordination across governance scales and sectors. Communities will need to strengthen their social networks, by building links with other forest-dependent communities and external organizations that can support them in their efforts to exert their forest rights. The goal and the challenge for Ethiopia’s current forest reform effort is to get the balance right between communities and the state in terms of how rights and governance functions are distributed, to enable the government to adapt to its new roles and ensure that communities receive the support they need to actualize their rights and discharge their forest management responsibilities as per agreed-upon management plans. 2019 2025-01-29T12:57:53Z 2025-01-29T12:57:53Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/171225 en Open Access Center for International Forestry Research McLain, Rebecca; Kassa, Habtemariam; Lawry, Steven; and Yazew, Belay. 2019. Fostering tenure security for forest landscape restoration in Ethiopia: Creating enabling conditions for the 2018 Forest Proclamation. CIFOR Infobrief no. 267. Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor/007410
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land tenure
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landscape
environmental restoration
McLain, Rebecca
Kassa, Habtemariam
Lawry, Steven
Yazew, Belay
Fostering tenure security for forest landscape restoration in Ethiopia: Creating enabling conditions for the 2018 Forest Proclamation
title Fostering tenure security for forest landscape restoration in Ethiopia: Creating enabling conditions for the 2018 Forest Proclamation
title_full Fostering tenure security for forest landscape restoration in Ethiopia: Creating enabling conditions for the 2018 Forest Proclamation
title_fullStr Fostering tenure security for forest landscape restoration in Ethiopia: Creating enabling conditions for the 2018 Forest Proclamation
title_full_unstemmed Fostering tenure security for forest landscape restoration in Ethiopia: Creating enabling conditions for the 2018 Forest Proclamation
title_short Fostering tenure security for forest landscape restoration in Ethiopia: Creating enabling conditions for the 2018 Forest Proclamation
title_sort fostering tenure security for forest landscape restoration in ethiopia creating enabling conditions for the 2018 forest proclamation
topic tenure security
land tenure
tenure
landscape
environmental restoration
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/171225
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