Governing synergies and trade-offs with SDG15 in Ethiopia: a global to local study on the challenges of landscape restoration in Lake Tana Sub-Basin, Ethiopia (PhDEth2).

The PhD project is part of the larger project on Governing SDG Interactions which takes a global-to-local approach, starting from the policies and practices of global development actors and national environmental commitments made under the key international agreement. It then will trace how these policies and practices of international actors align with Ethiopian environmental policies and practices in various centers of governance down to the local level. Builds on the existing theoretical and methodological frameworks, this study will be based on a system-based approach which is an innovative tool that encompasses a range of analytical frameworks from conventional single-sector models to more sophisticated multi-input approaches to examine and examine the complex relationship between water, food, forest, climate change, and other related issues in multiple level of governance. This system-based approach seeks also to find ways of further operationalizing the links to develop workable approaches that can be used to assist in identifying policy measures, defining, and setting desirable policy outcomes, establishing measures of success in achieving specific outcomes, and identifying core assumptions and risk factors involved.