Piloting innovations for improved data collection and management to support livestock monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of greenhouse gas emissions in Ethiopia

To complement an ongoing CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) project 'Enhancing capacities for MRV of sustainable livestock action in East Africa (Kenya and Ethiopia),' which is implemented by UNIQUE forestry and land use and CCAFS, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) supported CCAFS to implement a Small Research Activity (SRA) entitled 'Building capacities for an integrated livestock MRV system in Ethiopia'. The objective of the SRA was to support Ethiopian stakeholders to improve the methods and procedures used to produce and manage the livestock activity data required for measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Ethiopia. This report summarizes the rationale for and overall design of the pilot activities, pilot results, stakeholders' evaluations of the tools tested, and recommendations for adoption of positively evaluated tools.