Executive summary

The PATSPO project is a four-year project (2017-2020) financed by the NorwegianInternational Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) through the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Etiopia (RNE) to the World Agroforestry Centre (the International Centre for Research in agroforestry – ICRAF). ICRAF is responsible for the implementation of the project, in full coordination with the Ethiopian Environment, Forest and Climate Change Commission(EFCCC), the Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute (EEFRI) and NICFI/RNE. The ThePATSPO project is designed to ensure access to high-quality seeds of the most important tree species used for forest landscape restoration and all other tree planting activities in Ethiopia.PATSPO is therefore one among the necessary pre-requisites to achieve the ambitious restoration targets of Ethiopia’s Climate-Resilient Green Economy Strategy (CRGE 2011).