In a major step toward standardizing decentralized forest governance and strengthening environmental accountability, Ethiopian forestry development stakeholders convened in October for a consultation to enrich PFM implementation document, working guidelines and developing PFM monitoring and trucking system.
The consultation brought together senior officials, researchers, and technical experts from the Ethiopian Forestry Development (EFD) and the Ministry of National Strategy. The centerpiece of the deliberations was the review and further consultation of three inter connected tools:
1. Ethiopia’s Revised Participatory Forest Management (PFM) Guideline.
2. The PFM Monitoring and Tracking System.
3. The Web-Based Information System for Forest Governance.
Addressing participants during the opening session, Mr. Kabtamu Girma, CEO of Natural Forests at EFD, underscored that “The technical guidance, rigorous monitoring frameworks, and web-based information infrastructure are no longer optional extras but rather, indispensible imperatives for tracking the national PFM sites actual impact, sustainability, trajectory and beyond.
