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1 Training Title 2010 E.C West Shoa Zonal level Safeguard management training

2 Brief Overview

OFLP is Oromia National Regional State's programmatic umbrella and coordination platform for multi-sector, multi-partner intervention on all forested landscapes in Oromia. The Program will encourage land-use choices that retain forests for multiple purposes and optimize the productivity capacity of forest-surrounding landscapes in Oromia. OFLP coordination unit disintegrated to zonal and woreda levels to improve its implementation and coordination. West shoa is One of the six zones where Safeguard coordinators sit and coordinate clustered zones, under this zonal cluster there are four additional zones namely East shoa , South west shoa, North shoa and Finfine special zone. The program component 2 enabling environment will finance safeguard managementfor five selected zonal level training for woreda technical teams to improve their capacity of implementing the programs safeguard management tools.

3 Training Objectives

The Objective of the training is to capacitate woreda technical committee on the concept of OFLP Safeguard instruments so as to improve overall implementation of OFLP activities in west shoa Cluster for low carbon landscape management interventions and contribute to the GTP-2 and the CRGE goals in forestry, agriculture, land use and energy sectors.

4 Training Methods Power point Presentation on general view of REDD+ Power point Presentation on different safeguard instruments Discussion on topics covered by each presentations Closing remark and future directions

5 Training date Jan 22-23/20186 Location of training Trainings provided at four zonal city Woliso 7 Responsible body Safeguard coordinator, Lead facilitator, and ZoEFCCA8 Number of

participantsMale 73 female 14 totally 87

9 Training costs Training expends 133,864

10 Result/OutputsExperts familiarized with the program context, participants will be capacitated in integrating environmental and social safeguards of OFLP and enhance project goals achievement depending on the AWP.

11 Result contribution/Outcome

Technical teams will identify and discuss challenging issues, set potential solutions

for the identified challenges and agree on issues that require follow-up activities to

address safeguards issues at the grass root level, including compliance with the

safeguards instruments of OFLP and national requirements. And reduced

deforestation and forest degradation by practicing safeguard instruments in

afforestation and reforestation activitiesby regular activities of government,

community ,NGO and others/.

12 Conclusion/Recommendation

The OFLP will comply with applicable Ethiopian environmental and social

legislations/policies and the World Bank Safeguard Policies. The Program will not

finance any activity which causes significant adverse environmental and social

impacts. The potential impacts, if any, are expected to be site-specific, and localized

at small to medium magnitudes and mitigable through good design and appropriate

mitigation measures. Though trainings and consultation is very crucial in achieving

the desired program objective to which program was designed. And also in the

training including Administration office, civic societies, NGO’s, and government

project focal persons is very important by having roll in achieving its objective.

Therefore, effective planning of safeguard training at each level for success full

implementation and assessing its effectiveness at each level is a must.

13 Photo of participants

Woliso Training14 Attendance of training

participants