Welcome to Environment and Coffee Forest Forum
The Environment and Coffee Forest Forum (ECFF) is an Ethiopian Resident Charity registered and Licensed on November 5, 2009 by the Charities and Societies Agency of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Registration No. 0378) in accordance with the Charities and Societies Proclamation No. 521/2009. Originally, ECFF was established on November 9, 2005 as per the Ethiopian penal Code No. 404 issued in 1960 (Registration No. 2396), with the name Ethiopian Coffee Forest Forum. The Charity was established by a group of professionals, prominent individuals, scholars, and community leaders, in order to strengthen and promote networking among different institutions and organizations involved in the conservation and use of forest resources in Ethiopia.
Vision
ECFF strives to be a leading civil society organization in conservation research, education, communication and sustainable use of coffee/ forest, and thereby contribute to biodiversity conservation, poverty alleviation, social equity and policy dialogue in Ethiopia.
Mission
ECFF’s mission is to develop strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of the coffee genetic resources, forest ecosystems and the environment in order to improve the livelihoods of local communities.
Our Core Values
- Genuine and mutual partnership 100%
- Humanity 100%
- Neutrality 100%
- Gender equity and equality 100%
- People centered 100%
- Commitment 100%
- Loyalty 100%
- Team Spirit 100%
- Responsive to challenges of environmental and climate change 100%
- Multi-sect oral Partnership 100%
- Transparency , accountability and value for money 100%
- Learning , innovation and adaptation 100%
- Shared understanding 100%
- Efficiency and effectiveness 100%
Some of our Projects
Strengthening implementation of the Yayu Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve: A model site for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development (June 2013-November 2017) supported by Austrian development Cooperation
The project aims at contributing to sustainable development through strengthening institutional capacities to implement biosphere reserve management plans and support efforts to improve the livelihoods of the local community.
read moreComprehensive Cooperative Capacity Building Project in Oromia and Tigray National Regional States
The general objective of the project is to enabling target farmer cooperative unions to attain self-sufficiency in all six key areas and sub areas of competency: Function, Finance and Resource Management, Operations, Member participation and benefits, Management and governance.
read moreExploring the ecosystem limits to poverty alleviation in African forest-agriculture landscapes (ECOLIMITS) –funded the ESPA program of the UK , (June 2014-Dec 2017)
The overall aim of our project is to identify development strategies for forest-agriculture ecosystems in Ghana and Ethiopia that can alleviate poverty within ecosystem limits.
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