equitable payments for watershed services: a joint wwf, care and iied programme morten fauerby...
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Equitable Payments for Watershed Services:A joint WWF, CARE and IIED programme
Morten Fauerby Thomsen, CARE Danmark
A partnership between CARE, WWF and IIED
Linking poverty reduction and conservation
A partnership between donors: Danida and DGIS
Innovative partnerships
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
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?
Equitable PES
Payments for watershed services are supporting sustainable natural resource management, improved livelihoods and
social justice for the rural poor
Overall Programme Goal
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
10 Sites of Intervention
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
Program Strategy: Phasing
Phase 1
DataCollection }
Biophysical
Livelihood
Legal/institutional
1
Buyers & Sellers
2
Problem defined (situation analysis)3
PWS = Addressing the problem 4
Cost / Benefit analysis5
Impact on conservation and poverty6
Business Case7
MoU8
Implementation
Phase II 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
Potential Buyers Motivation
• Domestic water users Agricultural water users Industrial water users
Includes: Cement factories Breweries and distilleries Bottling companies (water/soft drinks) Textile factories 5 star hotels
• Cost of water treatment are high Costs of alternative water supply are high (trucks, boreholes) Revenues are foregone due to limited production in times of low water availability Fear of pending water crisis and the sustainability of alternative sources
Potential Sellers Motivation
• Poor communities in the catchment area (specific communities to be identified)
• Direct and indirect benefits
Tanzania (2)
What role for DonorsTanzania (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
Contact:
Please see programme handout !!