Watershed-Based Payments for Ecosystem Services
Summary
The project's aim is to identify and implement a system of payments for ecosystem services (PES) by watershed end-users to upstream communities in order to reward them for the conservation and sustainable management of the watershed.
Background
There is a growing interest in making direct payments to communities as reward for watershed management. The watershed in the humid forest of Madagascar (Fandriana-Vondrozo) has been identified as a high potential site providing a range of ecosystem services that yield tangible economic benefits and is yet to be recognized for the services provided. A project called Miaro has initiated preliminary work on payments for ecosystem services (PES) to identify potential sites linked to the creation of conservation areas. A national review on expertise for PES is also under way.
Objectives
Establish and implement a payment mechanism that encourages watershed conservation through payment for its usage.
Solution
- Improve livelihoods of the rural poor through additional revenues.
- Improve watershed management.
- Promote and sustain operating actions in upstream protected areas and community-based natural resource management.
Project Data
- Executant: Simon André Rafanomezantsoa
- Managing Office: WWF Madagascar and West Indian Ocean Programme Office
- Address: WWF Madagascar and West Indian Ocean Programme Office / B.P. 738 Antananarivo 101 / Madagascar /
+261 20 22 348 85
Contact
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Simon Rafanomezantsoa
Freshwater and Protected Areas Programme Officer
WWF Madagascar and West Indian Ocean Programme Office,
Antananarivo+261 20 22 304 20