The Ethiopian national ecosystem assessment came up with important key messages that will be instrumental in national policy processes and decision-making schemes. National ecosystem assessments are considered best choices in recent years to bring together different knowledge types and engage with a wide range of stakeholders in order to strengthen the credibility, legitimacy and relevance of biodiversity and ecosystems with their functions and services to humanity. Such assessments aim to address specific policy questions and assist empowering of the value of nature in decision-making including by undertaking elaborate analyses of scenario at the science-policy interface.
This Summary document intended for Policymakers was produced with extracts of the key findings from the comprehensive outputs of the National Ecosystem Assessment so that they can clearly show the current state of knowledge and the existing gaps between the science-policy interface. The findings could serve as important inputs for prior informed decision making, policy formulation and analysis of the stereotypic scenarios of drivers of change of biodiversity and their subsequent impacts on human wellbeing.