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Payment for Watershed Services
The Bellagio Conversations
From March 12 th to 17 th 2007, 24 individuals from 13 countries met at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center at Lake Como (Italy) to discuss lessons learned from recent global experiences with payments for watershed services (PWS). The goal of the Bellagio meeting was to consider how these experiences and knowledge could be used to improve the efficiency of watershed management. We believe that the resulting “Bellagio Conversations” can help shed light on some of the most important, pressing, complex and under-discussed PWS issues. Our hope is that these conversations will encourage others to tackle the opportunities and challenges of payments for watershed services.
RESEARCH
BOLIVIAN EXPERIENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION
THE LOS NEGROS-SANTA ROSA PROJECT: BEES FOR WATER
COMPENSATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES IN LOS NEGROS, IMPLEMENTED BY FUNDACIÓN NATURA BOLIVIA AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEES OF LOS NEGROS, PALMASOLA AND SANTA ROSA
PLANTING WATER, THE ICO EXPERIENCE
THE EASTERN TRAINING INSTITUTE (ICO)-LED PROJECT THAT PROTECTS WATER SOURCES TO GUARANTEE WATER QUALITY, QUANTITY AND CONTINUITY IN THE VALLEYS OF SANTA CRUZ
PROMETA EXPERIENCE
THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF WATER SOURCES FOR THE CITY OF TARIJA AND THE COMMUNITIES OF THE TOLOMOSA AND VITORIA WATERSHEDS.
STRENGTHENING CONSERVATION THROUGH PES
THE FRIENDS OF NATURE FOUNDATION (FAN) PROJECT THAT ASSESSES THE POTENTIAL FOR PES IN THE PIRAY WATERSHED.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE POTENTIAL FOR PES IN THE ANDINA DE NACIONES COMMUNITY WITH AN EMPHASIS ON SPRINGS.
PHOTO GALLERY
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WEB LINK'S
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Fair deals for watershed services in Bolivia
Despite numerous attempts at integrated watershed management in Bolivia, there have been few successes. Projects have invariably focused on increasing or managing supply through dam and infrastructure construction, and have rarely focused on improving efficiency or managing demand. At the national level, management has usually been through top-down laws and regulations, few of which have succeeded. [read more]
CURRENT PROJECTS
Developing markets for watershed protection services and improved livelihoods.
Lessons from Bolivia :
Fair deals for watershed services
Nigel Asquith and Maria Teresa Vargas
Donor: DFID and International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
It is in this context Fundación Natura Bolivia undertook an IIED-funded assessment of whether market mechanisms for watershed management can improve rural livelihoods . It should be clear from this preface that the answer to this question depends on which part of schizophrenic Bolivia is being analyzed: the Bolivia of Evo Morales, or the Bolivia of the mercantilist lowlands. [Read More]
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
"Evaluating the economic basis for payments-for-watershed-services around Amboró National Park, Bolivia"
Master thesis For forestry & Environmental Studies At Yale University 2004
María Teresa Vargas Rios
How can payments for watershed services mechanisms contribute to biodiversity conservation ?
Nigel Asquith, Fundación Natura Bolivia, Av. Irala 421, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Fresh Tracks in the Forest:
Assessing Incipient Payments for Environmental Services Initiatives in Bolivia
Nina Robertson1 and Sven Wunder2
"Prioritization of Bolivian watersheds for the implementation of compensation for environmental services (CES) projects"
by Robert Muller
There are only 35 watersheds in Bolivia that are likely to be suitable for the implementation of conservation-focused CES systems. Such sites likely require; Presence of threatened forest in the upper watershed; Maximum altitude of 4000 m, and altitudinal gradient of at least 500 m and an average 5% slope; Watershed size between 200 and 2000 km 2; Downstream communities of at least 2000 people; Important irrigation or agricultural water demand and Dry season water scarcity. Ten watersheds were prioritized as meriting more detailed analysis.
[read more]
"Characterization and final selection of priority watersheds for compensation for environmental services (CES) projects"
by Robert Muller
This study represents the second phase of the analysis for watershed selection. Of the ten prioritized watersheds, we selected seven as the most feasible candidate sites. Using detailed maps and satellite images along with field visits we further refined the feasibility criteria to include social and political issues. We were then able to prioritize the most sites where implementation of CES is most likely to succeed.
[read more]