Participants from the Government of Ethiopia, the Royal Norwegian Embassy and CIFOR/ICRAF, who attended a hybrid stakeholders consultation workshop PATSPO facilitated on 19 August 2021, all agreed on the need for a second phase of the PATSPO project. The workshop was organized to discuss lessons learned from first phase of the project as well as the justification for a second phase of the project. Director of the Forest Development Directorate, at Environment Forest and Climate Change commission, Bitew Shibabaw, said, ‘We have observed that PATSPO is highly relevant to Ethiopia’s tree planting and forestry initiatives, and it has been effective in the delivery of most of its outputs, and the potential for impact is considerable.’ He underlined the need for long-term financial and technical support to develop the tree seed sector in Ethiopia. And he expressed the Ethiopian Government’s interest to further collaborate during the implementation of the second phase of the project (PATSPO II). After the workshop, an additional three-month no cost extension was granted to PATSPO I, which will then end by March 31st, 2022. PATSPO has been implemented in Ethiopia since April 2017.