📋 Tender Overview
ontract partner: FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Country: ArmenienFunding amount: € 1.500.000,00Project start: 04.11.2021End: 03.11.2029
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
Overall objective: By 2030 contribute to achieving ecosystem neutral green house gas emission with clear and monitorable adaptation co-benefits.
Project objective: By Year 8, CO2 removals from the forest subsector are increased by at least 7% via sustainable climate adaptive forestry investments and fuelwood energy efficiency with effective involvement of communities.
Expected results
Component 1 (Climate change mitigation and adaptation through forest investments and technology transfer):
By Year 8, at least 2.5% of degraded forestland is restored and sustainably managed following a climate adaptive methodology.
Component 2 (Promoting forest sustainability reducing forest degradation drivers):
By Year 6, fuelwood consumption per energy unit output of targeted rural communities is optimized and decreased by at least 30%.
Component 3 (Strengthening governance of forest resources and climate change’s impact management at community as well as local and central government levels):
By Year 8, relevant stakeholders (including Hayantar and local communities) are enabled to adopt effective governance and adaptive management of forests
and related ecosystem services.
Hayantar is under the subordination of the State Forest Committee. Main functions of Hayantar are to ensure control, protection, conservation of biodiversity, restoration, re/afforestation and efficient use of state forests and forest lands.
Target group / Beneficiaries
In terms of adaptation, the project will target the rural population of two provinces: Lori (105 rural communities in eight municipalities) and Syunik (102 rural communities in seven municipalities), accounting for 377,308 people as direct beneficiaries.
Furthermore, the project's beneficiaries will be ministries, institutions, civil society organisations, the private sector, the Environmental Project Implementation Unit, Hayantar State Non-Commercial Organisation under the subordination of the State Forest Committee, State Forest Monitoring Center, World Wildlife Fund Armenia.
Activities
Component 1 is aligned with the Nationally Determined Contribution to increase the national forest cover to at least 20 per cent by year 2050. The project will support forest restoration to promote technology transfer and build the capacity of key stakeholders, in particular government and communities. Both mitigation and adaptation aspects are targeted to secure higher capacity of forests to store carbon and contribute to higher resilience of forests and dependent communities to climate risks.
Component 2 will concentrate on tackling the key driver of forest degradation in Armenia, which fuelwood harvesting, by promoting a transfer of technical knowledge and energy efficient appl
