Center for Development and Governance

𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 “𝗙𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀” 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱

The CDG conducted launching of a project titled “𝑭𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒕 𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑴𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝑰𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒎𝒊-𝑼𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒈𝒈𝒂𝒓 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 ” in Kura – Jidda Sub City of Shaggar City. The launching was attended by Administrator of the Sub City, Agriculture Experts, Horticulture Expert, and other various sectors representatives.

👉 𝑶𝒃𝒃𝒐 𝑨𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝑨𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒘, Executive Director of the Center for Development and Governance welcomed participants and introduced the CDG in brief. He said the CDG has been in operation for 14 years working on issues relevant to sustainable Peace and Development, implemented projects that aimed at improving lives of communities life in various sectors including agriculture related sectors like innovative Urban Agriculture. Again since start of the reform the CDG focused on rights issues and democratic governance in connection to attaining lasting peace, he said.

👉 After his briefing, Obbo Amanuel Adinew invited Administrator of Kura – Jidda Sub City Obbo Tamam Hussein to make opening speech. At the outset Obbo Taman Hussein started his speech as saying it was a surprise, which he didn’t expect such noble activity so pertinent to the Sub City to be implemented jointly. He said Kura – Jidda largely cover farmers who couldn’t get attention in areas of climate change mitigation in their agricultural activities. In this connection, he disclosed that Kura – Jidda is source of 60% water supply to Addis Ababa, which obviously demand protection and rehabilitation of vegetation cover so the rain water percolate into the ground preventing wastage in the form of runoff. In this connection he appreciated the planning of developing fruit bearing trees that would have dual benefits to community members. He underscored that experts of the field are expected to highly contribute towards success of the project.

✍️ Following the speech by the Administrator, staff of the CDG presented brief about the project in which he said the objective is to develop fruit tree seedlings which would benefit the farming community while contributing to mitigating harmful effects of climate change. He stated that preliminary activities like fencing the selected site and arrangement of safeguarding structure put in place. Among initials activities to follow he said are selection of appropriate fruit tree seedlings and selection of 160 direct beneficiaries from among the community in close collaboration with the administration, he said.

Later, participants of the Project Inauguration held lively discussion over the issue from different perspectives. Experts and officials from different sectors expressed their determination to collaborate with the CDG towards successful implementation of the project so that there would be replication of efforts to other adjacent areas.

📌 https://cdget.org/2026/05/04/launching-of-fruit-trees-for-mitigation-of-climate-change-impacts-conducted/

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𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹𝗲 - 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮

CDG in collaboration with VSO –Ethiopia launched a project titled “𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑩𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔: 𝑬𝒏𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝑪𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 - 𝑹𝑬𝑪𝑨𝑷 ” to be implemented among communities in the 🇪🇹 Ethiopia – Kenyan 🇰🇪 Border.

The project provides opportunity to the National and Community Volunteers in the facilitation of community engagement during the project activity implementation.
Prior to inception of the training, ten community volunteers were recruited from the target community based on preset criteria for the training, which was provided by experienced experts of CDG and VSO_ Ethiopia. The training consisted contents like RECAP design, Climate Change and Adaptation, Vulnerability Risk Assessment and Resource Mapping, Community Action Plan and Water and [other] Natural Resource Management.

According to the Project plan, the trainees shall be deployed back to their respective community to execute their assignment which includes support activities planned to enhance the community resilience; orient them about climate adaptation mechanisms; creation of awareness on vulnerability preparedness; and strengthening overall livelihoods.

Thus, the training of the community volunteers is an essential part of project implementation process, which would in the end lead to the success of the planned activities to the benefit of communities living in border areas of the two countries.

📌 https://cdget.org/2026/04/24/community-volunteers-training-conducted-in-moyale-ethiopia/

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