Review Meeting and Experience Sharing Visit Report Integrated Landscape Management to Enhance Food Security and Ecosystem Resilience in Ethiopia project Dugna-Fango woreda, Wolayta Zone, SNNPR July 22-23,2019 Review Meeting and Experience Sharing Visit Report Summary Integrated Landscape management is designed to enhance food security and ecosystem resilience in Ethiopia (IAP) project has been implementing to achieve food security with the need to restore and sustainably manage key environmental resources. The major objective of the project is to enhance long- term sustainability and resilience of food production systems by addressing the environmental drivers of food insecurity in the country.The project followes an integrated landscape approach to achieve food production resilience in landscapes under pressure. It combines land management choices and Integrated Natural Resources Management (INRM) with water- and climate-smart agriculture, value chain support and gender responsiveness. The project has been working in 12 districts of 6 regional states reached more than 60 communities The project benefited 56,596 hhs (29672 male and 26924) through Integrated Landscape Management practices including the rehabilitation of 54,472hectares of critically degraded communal land and farm or grazing land and out which 5,528hectare is agropastoral system. In addition 21563 hhs( 14278 male and 7285 female) are benefited through the implementation of nutrition sensitive diversified agricultural production (fruits, vegetables, poultry and improved cereals). Inaddtion, the project benefited 3,881hhs( 559 men and 3,322) through clean energy development and 1611 hhs (1182 men and 429 women) through development of irrigation infrastructures including stream diversion, construction of water harvesting ponds, development of springs and pumping systems. 474 ha farm land irrigated through the support. Review Meeting and Experience Sharing Visit Report Contents 1. Introduction .............................................................................1 Part I: Aggregate of the presentations by Components .........................................1 1. Dugna Fango Woreda: ...................................................................6 2. Belate-Zuria woreda ..................................................................................................................8 3. Angolela Woreda ..................................................................................................................... 11 4. Menze-Gera woreda ................................................................................................................. 14 5. Doba Woreda ........................................................................................................................... 16 6. Chiro Woreda .......................................................................................................................... 19 7. Tuliguleed Woreda ................................................................................................................... 21 8. Gursum Woreda ...................................................................................................................... 23 9. Tanqua-Abergele ..................................................................................................................... 25 Part II: Summary of the field visits conducted and feedbacks ................................ 28 Part III: Summary of questions, discussion points and consensus reached .................... 28 Annex: List of workshop participants: ...................................................... 30 i Review Meeting and Experience Sharing Visit Report List Figures: Figure 1: Degraded land rehabilitation at Chiro, Dona and Tanqua Abergele woredas ........................... 3 Figure 2: water harvesting structures at Doba and chiro woredas ........................................................... 4 Figure 3: Poultry enterprises owned by women user groups at Doba woreda ......................................... 5 Figure 4: Biomass and fuel saving cooking stove utilization by the project beneficiaries ........................ 6 Figure 1.1: School clubs preparing appropriate soil mix and planting seedlings in their school compound .................................................................................................................................................. 6 Figure 1.2: Rehabilitation of degraded land, Fango watershed. ............................................................... 7 Figure 2.1: Tree and Forage seedling producing nurseries …………………………………………………………………..9 Figure 2.2: Some of the house hold level farm diversification activities implemented at project sites ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………10 Figure 3.1: Environmental school clubs in seedling plantation in their school compounds. ................... 11 Figure 3.2: Some of the dairy value chain development activities .......................................................... 12 Figure 3.3: Some of the individual poultry enterprises, trainings for the beneficiary hhs and chicken nurturing hub ....................................................................................................................................... 12 Figure 3.4: Among the clean energy development beneficiaries ............................................................. 13 Figure 4.1: Trained school club members preparing their school compound to seedling plantation ..... 14 Figure 4.2: Sheep fattening and poultry production at household levels. ................................................ 15 Figure 4.3: Organized user groups working in handcraft making (carpet production)............................ 16 Figure5.1: Environmental school clubs in their school compounds ........................................................ 17 Figure 5.2: Project supported seedling raising nurseries & environmental rehabilitation activities by the project .................................................................................................................................................. 17 Figure 6.1: Environmental school club members (boys and girls) under seedling pit preparation ......... 19 Figure 6.2: Gender team participating in environmental rehabilitation activities and discussions ......... 20 Figure 6.3: Organized SHG under production of fuel saving cooking stoves and biogas giving light service ...................................................................................................................................................... 21 Figure 7.1: environmental clubs engaged in community discussion and seedling plantation missions .. 22 Figure 7.2: Among the Energy efficient and clean Energy Technologies practiced in the woreda. ........ 23 Figure 8.1: School clubs on awareness creation and mobilization mission ............................................. 24 Figure 8.2: Fardawusa, a model women farmer producing onion and tomato through irrigation .......... 25 Figure 9.1: Onion producers cooperatives transporting to market .......................................................... 27 Figure 9.2: Some of the beneficiaries engaged in nutrition sensitive diversified agricultural activities . 27 ii Review Meeting and Experience Sharing Visit Report 1. Introduction Integrated Landscape Management to enhance Food Security and Ecosystem Resilience (IAP) project conducted Review Workshop in 22-23 July 2019 at Dugna-Fango woreda of Southern Nations Nationalities and People’s region(SNNPR). The participants were drawn from 12 project woredas. Five persons were invited from each woreda including the woreda Administrator; Woreda head of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change office; woreda project coordinator, and two beneficiary model farmers. Apart from the woreda participants, head of regional Environment, Forestry and Climate Change Bureau and national project steering committee members (EFCCC, UNDP, MoWIE, EBI, MoFEC and NMA were invited and participated. The main objectives of the workshop and exchange visit were to: ✓ Review major achievements and challenges of IAP project interventions at each woreda; ✓ Share experience/lessons learned on best practices among the woredas Dugna-Fango woreda was selected as a host woreda because of the presence of best practices from which participants can share experiences particularly on integrated leadership, project management and focused project interventions. The national workshop has been designed in a way that comprehensive formats that cover major implementation components of the project were prepared and shared to all woredas for sound preparation of the project achievement, lessons learnt, challenges faced in the course of the implementation period and solutions undertaken at all levels as well as the opportunity to implement the project interventions. The national workshop schedule consisted of two parts; the first one day were allocated to field visit to visualize integrated landscape management and food security achievement in selected project kebeles/landscapes. The major components visited were: rehabilitated degraded communal land; successful environmental rehabilitation and management interventions accomplished by environmental school clubs; biogas energy technologies implemented at household levels, food security and income generation activities such as household fish culture and poultry being undertaken by individual households and user groups. Furthermore, one women successful