Green Amayaga
The Green Amayaga Project is a six year initiative that will promote biodiversity, foster ecosystem services, increase agricultural productivity and reduce the vulnerability of people and ecosystems to the adverse effects of climate change. The project was launched on 23 October 2020 in Nyanza District alongside the first tree planting of Rwanda’s annual Forest Planting Season 2020/21.
Investment
US $32.7m (RWF 31.9b)
Duration
6 years (2020-2025)
Status
Ongoing
Project Team
Project Manager
Philbert Nkurunziza
Location
REMA HQ 3rd floor
amayaga@rema.gov.rw
Phone
+250 788771660
Overall, the Green Amayaga project will advance the restoration of the degraded forests in the area, the landscape of which covers more than 550 hectares, or 0.14% of Rwanda’s total national natural forests, 10% of the planted forest as well as many patches of remnant forest. The Amayaga region hosts the 354 hectare natural forest of Kibirizi-Muyira as well as the Busoga forest reserves.
The project targets forests that host important biodiversity and provide crucial ecosystem services to local communities. The project will enhance sustainable land management in the agricultural lands in the landscape, increase the productivity of plantation forests and reduce the negative impacts of household energy systems on the forests by introducing improved cookstoves as well as sustainable charcoal production.
Regarding climate adaptation and resilience, the project will strengthen the resilience of communities and biodiversity and contribute to climate change stabilization particularly in the District of Kamonyi, Ruhango, Nyanza and Gisagara.
The Green Amayaga project will also increase the erosion control and protection of marshlands and buffer zones, this will also increase agriculture productivity. In total, 263,000 hectares of agricultural land will be restored and rehabilitated. Small and large watersheds will also be rehabilitated and restored to provide water for human consumption as well as livestock and agriculture activities.
The project will improve the livelihoods of local communities, increase agricultural productivity and food security, create green jobs as well as promote gender equality and expand forest management knowledge. More than 1.3 million people will benefit from the project, the majority of whom are women and young people.
The project will create approximately 150,000 jobs during the six years of implementation and provide 7,500 households with livestock to improve food security and increase incomes. In addition 60,000 households will be provided with improved and energy efficient cook stoves to reduce wood consumption and greenhouse gases emissions, and halt indoor respiratory diseases.
IMPACT
Latest updates
The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) in partnership with Action pour la Protection de l‟Environnement et la Promotion des Filières…
Many decades ago, women and children in Amayaga Region – in Rwanda’s southern province – have been struggling with the lack of firewood and…
The Minister of Environment, Dr. Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya has on 3rd May 2023 launched the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for bulk cooking in…
The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) through the Forest Landscape Restoration in Amayaga Region (Green Amayaga) Project, has on 29th…
The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) through the Forest Landscape Restoration in the Mayaga Region – Green Amayaga Project has from 22nd…
The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) through the Forest Landscape Restoration in the Mayaga Region – known as Green Amayaga Project – in…
Environmental Cooperative members from Kamonyi, Nyanza, Ruhango and Gisagara Districts of the Southern Province were today trained on seedlings…
In October 2020, the Rwanda Environment Management Authority in collaboration with the Rwanda Forestry Authority and the districts of Kamonyi, Nyanza,…
Ikigo cy’igihugu cyo kubungabunga ibidukikije (REMA) kibinyujije mu mushinga wacyo wo gusubiranya igice cy’Amayaga “Forest Landscape Restoration in…
Rwanda Environment Management Authority through the Forest Landscape Restoration in the Amayaga Region (Green Amayaga) Project is distributing…