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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

Email

amayaga@rema.gov.rw

Phone

+250 788771660

Environmental Impact

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. 

Sustainable Development

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

1.3 million beneficiaries from Gisagara, Nyanza, Kamonyi, and Ruhango districts

362,000 direct beneficiaries

150,000 green jobs to be created

60,000 households to be provided with improved and energy-efficient cooking stoves

7,500 households to be provided with small livestock

4.7 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions avoided over the next five years

13 million tons of indirect greenhouse gas emissions avoided over the next 20 years

1.4 million trees to be planted in the 2020/2021 Forest Planting Season

Latest updates

  | Green Amayaga |

Green Amayaga Football competition: Thousands gather to receive messages regarding the project sustainability

The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) in partnership with Action pour la Protection de l‟Environnement et la Promotion des Filières…

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Green Amayaga Project, a solution for women and children

Many decades ago, women and children in Amayaga Region – in Rwanda’s southern province – have been struggling with the lack of firewood and…

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Minister Mujawamariya officiates the use of LPG donated to 20 schools by REMA through Green Amayaga Project

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…

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Green Amayaga Project steps up to improve communities’ livelihood in Rwanda’s Amayaga Region

The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) through the Forest Landscape Restoration in Amayaga Region (Green Amayaga) Project, has on 29th…

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Green Amayaga distributes livestock to project beneficiaries to improve their livelihoods

The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) through the Forest Landscape Restoration in the Mayaga Region – Green Amayaga Project has from 22nd…

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Green Amayaga: Farmers trained on Climate-Smart Agriculture practices

The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) through the Forest Landscape Restoration in the Mayaga Region – known as Green Amayaga Project – in…

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Green Amayaga: Youth Cooperative Members trained on Seedlings Production

Environmental Cooperative members from Kamonyi, Nyanza, Ruhango and Gisagara Districts of the Southern Province were today trained on seedlings…

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How the Green Amayaga Project is reducing firewood use in Rwanda’s Southern Province

In October 2020, the Rwanda Environment Management Authority in collaboration with the Rwanda Forestry Authority and the districts of Kamonyi, Nyanza,…

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  | Green Amayaga |

Ikigo REMA cyatangiye gutanga Imbabura zirondereza ibicanwa no kugabanya imyuka ihumanye yoherezwa mu kirere

Ikigo cy’igihugu cyo kubungabunga ibidukikije (REMA) kibinyujije mu mushinga wacyo wo gusubiranya igice cy’Amayaga “Forest Landscape Restoration in…

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Beneficiaries of REMA’s Green Amayaga Project receive improved cookstoves to promote energy efficiency

Rwanda Environment Management Authority through the Forest Landscape Restoration in the Amayaga Region (Green Amayaga) Project is distributing…

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CEO Endorsement letter

Forest Landscape Restoration in the Mayaga Region

Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel

GEF SECRETARIAT REVIEW FOR FULL-SIZED/MEDIUM-SIZED PROJECTS THE GEF/LDCF/SCCF TRUST FUND

PROJECT IDENTIFICATION FORM

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