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Payments for Environmental Services (PES) from Agricultural Landscapes

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Workshop Tanzania

FAO capacity building workshop on
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) in Eastern Africa
Rewarding local communities for sustainable land management.
Dar Es Salaam, 4-6 February 2008

As part of the PESAL activities, and in collaboration with the Land and Water Division (NRL) and their upcoming transboundary ecosystem management project in the Kagera River Basin, FAO held a capacity-building workshop focusing on the potential application of PES mechanisms in East Africa. Organized in collaboration with CARE Tanzania, the workshop explored the potential of PES programmes to provide incentives for Sustainable Land Management in East Africa, and specifically in the Kagera River Basin.

The workshop aimed to build capacity for using PES schemes as an incentive for Sustainable Land Management, provide an introduction to what PES schemes are and how they work, offer an overview of on-going worldwide PES scenario activities focusing on East Africa, generate discussion on the legislation and institutional framework required for the development of PES programmes in East Africa and highlight the necessary conditions to facilitate the participation of poorer rural groups in PES schemes. Participants discussed obstacles and opportunities for PES development with respect to particular environmental services and built regional partnerships among policy makers and natural resource managers for future collaboration.

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Workshop Report dowload document

Presentations
Day 1: Monday 4 February 2008
PES from sustainable land management- rationale and overview of regional initiatives
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Paying farmers for Environmental Services as one way to provide incentives for Sustainable Land Management
Leslie Lipper, FAO
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Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Terrafrica initiative
Sally Bunning, FAO
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Agroecosystems of Kagera River Basin in Tanzania: Niches for PES to Enhance Sustainable Land Management.
Freddy Baijukia, Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute
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Overview of PES Initiatives in East and Southern Africa.
Alice Ruhweza, The Katoomba Group
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Overview of PES Programs Being Implemented in Tanzania. Opportunities and Barriers.
Dosteus Lopa, CARE Tanzania

Ongoing PES projects in East and Southern Africa
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Opening Remarks: Watershed protection and river basin integrated management: an opportunity for implementing PES projects in Eastern Africa.
Evarist Nashanda, Ministry of Forestry of Tanzania
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Pro-Poor Rewards for Environmental Services in Africa (PRESA).
Thomas Yatich, World Agroforestry Center-ICRAF Kenya
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The Opportunities and Challenges of Implementing PES in the Water Sector: A Kenyan  Buyer’s Perspective.
Philip Msafiri, Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company-NCWSC
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Potentials for PES in the Carbon Markets in East Africa: Experiences in Carbon Offset Projects in Uganda.
Byamukama Biryahwaho, Nature Harness Initiatives-NAHI
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The Nairobi Framework and Potential Carbon Market for East Africa.
Todd Ngara, UNEP Risø Center
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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD):  Policy Scenarios and Carbon Markets.
Jenny Farmer, Uganda Carbon Bureau
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PES Potential for Biodiversity conservation in East Africa.
Enock W. Kanyanya, Nature Kenya, Nairobi
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The Biorights Approach: Resource Conservation and Sustainable Management.
James Musunguzi, Uganda Wildlife Education Center
Day 2: Tuesday 5 February 2008
Assessing PES feasibility: theoretical issues and working groups
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Getting Started: Overall Working Group activities.
Monika Zurek, FAO
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Demonstrate the use of "market assessment" procedure for PES feasibility.
Thomas Oberthur, Ecoagriculture Partners
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Environmental Services Assessment in Practice- the Kenya experience.
Mohammed Said, ILRI
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 The “business case”: a tool to make a case for PES to present to buyers.
Dosteus Lopa and Mark Ellis, CARE Tanzania
Day 3: Wednesday 6 February 2008
Institutional and poverty issues
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Supporting the conservation of biological diversity and alleviating poverty: Experiences from Trees for Global Benefits Programme (Plan Vivo Uganda).
Pauline Nantongo Kalunda, Environmental Conservation Trust (ECOTRUST) of Uganda
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Pro-poor PES Design: Potentials and obstacles for the poor to benefit as suppliers of environmental services.
Thomas Yatich and Vanessa Meadu(ICRAF Kenya)
dowload document Enabling Environment: Institutional barriers to PES development and enabling legislation in East and Southern Africa.
Alice Ruhweza, The Katoomba Group
dowload document PES enabling institutions- orientation for working group session.
Bernardete Neves,FAO
dowload document Presentation of FAO's PES website- PESAL.
Giacomo Branca, FAO
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Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (FAO-GEF-UNDP project)- the case of Maasai Pastoral Rangeland Management (Kenya and Northern Tanzania).
Sally Bunning, FAO
Working group materials
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ES Market Assessment matrixes and background info.
Thomas Oberthur, Ecoagriculture Partners
dowload document CARE/WWF Building a PES business case guidelines
Dosteus Lopa, CARE Tanzania and Mark Ellis-Jones, WWF Kenya
dowload document Kagera background information.
Sally Bunning, FAO (Kagera TAMP project documents)