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Poverty, Reforestation, Energy and Climate Change

Environmental and Social Management (FAO)







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    Poverty, Reforestation, Energy and Climate Change
    Evaluation highlights
    2025
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    The project aims to improve the resilience of poor and extremely poor households that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and to increase forest cover in environmentally sensitive areas of eastern Paraguay. It promotes incentives to mitigate climate change by planting fast-growing trees alongside valuable native species in an environmentally friendly and socially responsible manner. At the same time, it addresses rural and extreme poverty in order to increase resilience and climate change adaptation.
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    Evaluation of the project “Poverty, Reforestation, Energy and Climate Change"
    Mid-term report, project code: GCP/PAR/020/GCF
    2024
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    This is the mid-term report of the evaluation of the project “Poverty, Reforestation, Energy, and Climate Change” (PROEZA), co-implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Paraguayan government institutions, and funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The project’s main objective is to improve the resilience of poor and extreme poor households vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and to increase the forest cover in environmentally sensitive areas of Eastern Paraguay. This report presents an assessment of the project’s design and progress towards established objectives. The evaluation answers questions framed starting from the project’s theory of change. Methods involved desk reviews, field visits, interviews to FAO and non-FAO stakeholders, focus group discussions with beneficiaries and a comparative analysis of the emissions reduction calculation. Up to October 2023, PROEZA planted 700 hectares, involving 800 families and designed a regulatory proposal that would create a single window for forestry investment procedures. The evaluation framed four recommendations to ensure better execution, still low at 5 percent at the time of the evaluation. Recommendations entail addressing design deficiencies, strengthening leadership, establishing an exit strategy, and reviewing the Environmental and Social Management Framework.
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    Article
    Reforestation to mitigate changes to climate: More than just planting seedlings
    XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
    2022
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    Global interest in reforestation to help mitigate climate change is increasing demand for nursery-produced seedlings. Often governments, the public, and non-profit organizations simplify reforestation to the physical act of tree planting without comprehension of the entirety of the process needed for reforestation to be successful. A range of tasks from planning to implementation to post-planting monitoring and care are necessary (i.e., the reforestation pipeline). And, often, a one-size-fits-all approach to reforestation is promoted without appreciation for the diversity of ecosystems needing restoration, exacerbated by climatic uncertainties that challenge reforestation conducted status quo. While some recent attention has focused attention on the reforestation pipeline, considering a climate-smart, or climate-informed approach to reforestation in conjunction with a smooth transition from initial tree planting to on-going forest management to support long-term resilience has yet to be fully explored. Considering reforestation more holistically and through a climate lens could provide more effective reforestation and increase the trajectory for achieving long-term climate, carbon, biodiversity, and social goals expected from initial tree planting efforts. Keywords: Reforestation, planting, climate change, nursery, forest management ID: 3617531

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