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Integrated
Forest Management Project Adaba-Dodola (IFMP)
IFMP is a technical cooperation
project of the Governments of Ethiopia and Germany started in 1995. Its
mission is to develop a feasible approach for the conservation of natural
forests in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia.
A model for participatory,
community-based forest management is being implemented by the project in
the Forest Priority Area of Adaba-Dodola located on the northern slopes
of the Bale Mountains adjacent to the Bale Mountains National Park.
The core element of the
conservation strategy is granting of exclusive use rights to forest dweller
associations (WAJIB) thereby regulating the access to the apparently ownerless
forest resources. At the same time, tree growing outside the natural forest
is supported in order to reduce the pressure on what is considered by illegal
wood collectors as common property. The generation of alternative income,
which the forest dwellers can derive from non-wood forest products, is
to further reduce the pressure on forest reources. One such income source
is tourism. Its promotion by IFMP is one of the on-going project activities.
The executive bodies of
IFMP are the Oromia Agricultural Development Bureau in Addis Ababa on the
one hand and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ),
GmbH on the other. For more information about GTZ see their website.
For
this and other contacts refer to Links [continue].
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September, 2000
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