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PES Materials

PES "Manuals"

 
Overview of PES development stages and useful sources of information
Click here to print menu "Setting up a PES scheme" and "Materials" in pdf
Getting Started: An Introduction to Design & Implementation of Payments for Ecosystem Service. The Katoomba Group & partners.

PAY -Establishing payments for watershed services. Smith, M., de Groot, D. Smith, M., de Groot D, Perrot-Maitre D and Bergkamp, G.2006.IUCN - The World Conservation Union. Gland, Switzerland.
Value- Counting ecosystems as water infrastructure. Emerton, L., Bos, E. 2004. IUCN - The World Conservation Union. Gland, Switzerland

Also from IUCN- A Gateway to PES-resources useful for the different stages of ES thinking and PES development
World Bank Best Practice on PES Design see especially the powerpoint presentation: ES for Dummies
USAID PES Sourcebook- Lessons and Best Practices for Pro-poor Payments for Ecosystem Services.

ICRAF-IDRC Global Scoping Study on Compensation for Ecosystems Services providing recommendations for PES design and giving an overview of PES development in Latin America, Asia and Africa . The series includes nine working papers and reports from regional consultantions.

Negotiating For Nature's Services: A Primer for Sellers of Ecosystem Services on Identifying & Approaching Prospective Private Sector Buyers.Roberts, J. P. and Waage, S. 2007. The Katoomba Group & partners

Negotiating Watershed Services. Hope, R. Porras, I., Borgoyary, M., Miranda, M., Agarwal, C., Tiwari, S. and Amezaga, J. 2007. International Institute for Environment and Development, London.
Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management (PREM) Project Report- Designing Payments for Watershed Protection Services of Philippine Upland Dwellers
Lessons learned from emerging PES projects

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IIED Developing Markets for Watershed Services
A project to increase understanding of the potential role of market mechanisms in promoting the provision of watershed services for improving livelihoods in developing countries, ongoing since 2001 in South Africa, India, Indonesia, The Caribbean and also China and Bolivia.

Lessons learned during the first years of negotiations and implementation, are available as country reports, and capacity building materials like films, field trip reports and a cartoon booklet are also available.

The project also generated a review of over 50 PES projects ongoing in developing countries-case study profiles are available at www.watershedmarkets.org


RUPES- ICRAF programme to Reward the Upland Poor in Asia for the Environmental Services they provide
Visit the RUPES website for progress reports and synthesis of lessons learned in the implementation in their action-learning sites, in The Philippines, Indonesia and Nepal.There is also a regular newsletter reporting on progress

Green Water Credits: Lessons learned from PES- Report 2, July 2006, ISRIC- World Soil Information
Focusing on Pro-poor PES Design

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World Bank Guidelines for pro-poor PES

FAO Agricultural Development Economics Division Working Papers on opportunities to combine PES tools and poverty alleviation
Less-favoured areas: Looking beyond agriculture towards ecosystem services.
Leslie Lipper, Prabhu Pingali and Monika Zurek, 2006. ESA working paper 06-08
When are payments for environmental services beneficial to the poor?
D. Zilberman, L. Lipper and N. McCarthy, 2006. Paper presented at the International Conference on Economics of Poverty, Environment and Natural Resource Use 17-19 May 2006 Wageningen University Netherlands: ESA working paper 06-04
Estimating the supply response among low income land users to carbon in Costa Rica. ESAE conducted a collaborative study with Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs on estimating the supply response to carbon payments among poor landusers, using empirical data from Costa Rica. The results of the study were published in 2004 as ESA Working Papers 4-19, 4-20 and 4-21 on the ESA working papers website http://www.fao.org/es/esa/en/pubs_wp.htm
Compensation for environmental services and rural communities. Rosa, R., Kandel, S., Dimas, L., Cuéllar, N. & Méndez, E. 2003. Lessons from the Americas and key issues for strengthening community strategies. San Salvador, Programa Salvadoreño de Investigación sobre Desarrollo y Medio Ambiente (PRISMA).
Pagos por Servicios Ambientales : conceptos, principios y su realización a nivel municipal
Programa para la Agricultura Sostenible en Laderas de América Central, Corredor Biológico Mesoamericano, Managua
Payments for ecosystem services- Issues and pro-poor opportunities for development assistance.Ravnborg, H. M., Damsgaard, M. G. and Raben, K. 2007. Danish Institute for International Studies-DIIS Report 2007:6
Can the Poor Participate in Payments for Environmental Services? Lessons from the Silvopastoral Project in Nicaragua.
Poor Household Participation in Payments for Environmental Services: Lessons from the Silvopastoral Project in Quindío, Colombia.