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Silver bullet or fools’ gold? A global review of markets for forest environmental services and their impacts on the poor. This publication is also available on a CD Rom of the series ‘Instruments for sustainable private sector forestry’. To request a free copy of the CD Rom please contact forestry@iied.org Country studies Fair deals for watershed services in India Fair deals for watershed services in Indonesia Fair deals for watershed services in the Caribbean Fair deals for watershed services in Bolivia Lake Matters: Paying to protect watersheds: Shed Loads - paying to protect watersheds: Project reports and activities: New tools in the forest: The Plan Vivo experience with carbon service provision and the potential lessons for watershed service Jessica Orrego Communications strategy for supporting wetland-friendly management practices in the Bhoj Wetlands, India This report, by IIED's India country-partners, Winrock International India, documents the communications strategy put in place to encourage water users in Bhopal to make voluntary payments for watershed services. Challenges to establishing markets for watershed services: Learning from country diagnostics Tighe Geoghegan This paper synthesises a set of diagnostic studies carried out by IIED and local partners in 2001-2002 to explore the potential of market-based approaches for watershed protection. The studies responded to concerns raised in earlier work by IIED that markets for watershed services were being promoted without adequate consideration of their costs and benefits. Studies carried out for four countries or regions - the Caribbean, India, Indonesia and South Africa - included an assessment of key watershed management issues and needs; potential market actors; the policy and institutional context; and interest in and demand for market-based approaches. Project document: Policy learning in action: Developing markets for watershed services and improved livelihoods Implementation Phase Findings Discussion Workshop In December 2005, a findings discussion workshop was held in London to discuss the interim lessons learned by the project and to share learning with other interested partners. A summary report of the workshop can be downloaded and copies of presentations can be requested by email from forestry@iied.org Project Planning Workshop The project has an advisory group which meets at key stages in the project, and whose members keep in contact throughout the project. The advisory group comprises two advisers selected by the country team leaders (Peter Frost and Bhaskar Vira), the country team leaders themselves, and the international project’s manager, Ivan Bond. The advisory group aims to increase communications and learning opportunities between country teams, and to document, peer review and disseminate lessons from the multi-country approach. The project advisory group has been proposed as the most effective way of increasing the communication and the options to learn from the experiences of each country partner. The Caribbean: South Africa Bolivia: China: IIED Sustainable Markets Group: Environmental Economics IIED Natural Resources Group: Water and Ecosystems The Katoomba Group is an international working group composed of leading experts from forest and energy industries, research institutions, the financial world, and environmental NGOs dedicated to advancing markets for some of the ecosystem services provided by forests. The Ecosystems Market Place seeks to become the world’s leading source of information on markets and payment schemes for ecosystem services; services such as water quality, carbon sequestration and biodiversity . The RUPES project aims to Reward the Upland Poor in Asia for the Environmental Services they provide (RUPES) Flows: The Flows bulletin provides a monthly review of selected topics concerning payment arrangements for watershed services – their effectiveness, the lessons being learnt. Flows is available in English and Spanish. Television Trust for the Environment (TVE): Is an independent, non-profit organisation, TVE's mission is to act as a catalyst for the production and distribution of films on environment and development. TVE, in collaboration with IIED, has produced a 26 minute film on watershed services broadcast on BBC World on 10 September 2005. This short documentary looks at the potential and problems for payments for watershed services in Africa, Asia and The Americas. Center for International Forestry (CIFOR) and Center for Development Research (ZEF) (Bonn): In partnership with CIFOR and ZEF, the project hosted a 3 day workshop on watershed services. The workshop examined the lessons learned from the development of payments for watershed services in developed countries that can be applied to developing country situations. Selected papers from the workshop will be published in a special edition of Ecological Economics. Department for International Development (DFID) (Implementation phase) |
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