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Equitable Payments for Watershed Services: A joint WWF, CARE and IIED programme

Equitable Payments for Watershed Services: A joint WWF, CARE and IIED programme. Morten Fauerby Thomsen, CARE Danmark. Innovative partnerships. A partnership between CARE, WWF and IIED Linking poverty reduction and conservation A partnership between donors: Danida and DGIS.

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Equitable Payments for Watershed Services: A joint WWF, CARE and IIED programme

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  1. Equitable Payments for Watershed Services:A joint WWF, CARE and IIED programme Morten Fauerby Thomsen, CARE Danmark

  2. Innovative partnerships • A partnership between CARE, WWF and IIED • Linking poverty reduction and conservation • A partnership between donors: Danida and DGIS

  3. Ecosystem Services and Poverty Reduction • Poor rural communities are often stewards of environmental services • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: • Nearly 2/3 of world’s ecosystem services now under threat • Degradation of ecosystem services is a barrier to achieving the MDGs • Harmful effects of degradation ecosystem services borne disproportionately by the poor

  4. Equitable PES • Aims to bring substantial benefits to the poor: • Direct: financial benefits to farmers and households; at community level (hospitals, schools) • Indirect benefits: community empowerment, decreased vulnerability, conservation of ecosystem. • Aims to make payments to the poor in a just and equitable way • Intermediaries?

  5. Overall Programme Goal Payments for watershed services are supporting sustainable natural resource management, improved livelihoods and social justice for the rural poor

  6. 10 Sites of Intervention • Philippines: Cantingas watershed (Sibuyan) & Mt. Isarog watershed (Camarines Sur) • Indonesia: Kapuas Hulu (Borneo) & Eastern Nussa Tengara (Timor) • Peru: Jequetepeque river basin & Piura river basin • Guatemala: Sierra de las Minas & Polochic watershed • Tanzania: Uluguru mountains and East Usambara

  7. Program Strategy: Phasing • Phase 1: Making the business case • Buyers: profitability, viability of payments • Sellers: incentives for land use changes required • 1.5 years, funding from DGIS and Danida • Phase 2: Full implementation PES • For each site that delivers a viable business case • 3-4 years

  8. 1 2 } Data Collection Biophysical Livelihood Legal/institutional Buyers & Sellers 4 6 5 3 PWS = Addressing the problem Problem defined (situation analysis) Cost / Benefit analysis Impact on conservation and poverty Business Case 7 MoU 8 9 Phase II Implementation Phase 1

  9. Tanzania (1) • Uluguru and East Usambara Mountains • Uluguru Mountains: • Provides water to Dar-es-Salaam (Ruvu river) • Increased water scarcity and quality problems • High level of poverty in watershed

  10. Tanzania (2)

  11. What role for Donors Tanzania (3) • Better linkages to government • Better placed to support/facilitate an institutional and legal environment that is supportive of PES schemes: • Tanzania PES Task Force • No PES without government in Tanzania

  12. Contact: Please see programme handout !!

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