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E-News Issue 9 - August 2007 |
In this issue
Message from
RUPES Project Office
Starting
from the current edition, readers will receive the E-News during the
first week of the month. I believe you will agree that the August
edition should be read in August.
In
this edition, we share a number of successfully completed activities in
the development of payments for watershed services at the RUPES learning
site at Sibuyan, the Philippines. We also happy to share the latest
progress in Vietnam on finding a legal basis for the payments for
environmental services (PES).
Next
week, the RUPES Project will be in Bangkok at the Asia-Pacific Tropical
Forest Investment Forum sharing its concepts and achievements with a
wider audience. We hope to see many of you at this regional forum
organized by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO).
Happy
reading ...
Aunul
Fauzi
RUPES
Communication Specialist
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RUPES
at the Asia-Pacific Tropical Forest Investment Forum
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RUPES
will present a paper to the Asia-Pacific Tropical Forest
Investment Forum in Bangkok, Thailand (6-8 August 2007).
Organized by the International Tropical Timber Organization
(ITTO), this regional forum focuses on issues and
opportunities for investment in natural tropical forests. Click
here for
more details. Dr
Suyanto from RUPES Sumberjaya will focus his presentation on
payments for environmental services schemes in the region,
developed in accordance with the experiences of the RUPES
Project.
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Program
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There
are four RUPES criteria used to formulate reward mechanisms
for environmental services, namely conditional, realistic,
voluntary, and pro-poor. These will be employed in the
presentation to address questions such as, "What
mechanisms exist to enable the rewards to move past
traditional forms of finance (e.g. large scale forestry
investing, industrial use of forests) and how can communities
and governments access them?". The presentation will also
pose the question: "How does a local investor or
community member plan to calculate investment returns using
such mechanisms and how have these 'innovative' mechanisms
worked in practice?" [Aunul Fauzi]
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EPWS
Project Progress in Sibuyan
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Equitable Payments for Watershed Services (EPWS) project in
Mt. Guiting-guiting, the RUPES Associate site in Sibuyan,
the Philippines, was completed in April 2007. A number of
activities were successfully completed which support the
development of payments for watershed services.
For the rainfall run-off
model, rainfall data was acquired and evapo-transpiration
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computed.
Land use and vegetation inputs were necessary to run the
model. The difficulty lay in acquiring streamflow data from
ROMELCO (the Romblon Electric Cooperative), though the
streamflow data may not be needed using the HYLUC model
calibrated with Panama parameters.
An
integrated economic valuation-water use survey was
completed, while descriptive statistics were already
available. Land use/land cover change analysis is now in the
final stages of writing. For analytical purposes, three
points were used, i.e. images from 1993 (LANDSAT), 1998
(SPOT) and 2003 (LANDSAT).
The
following map data already generated includes the following:
settlement, land use and land class (based on NIPAP data,
see Figure X), topographic, river system, elevation, slope,
road, watershed boundary (management unit), barangay
boundary, sub-catchment boundary, land management unit (BSWM),
and buyers and sellers locations.
The
EPWS project in Sibuyan is one of the 19 projects and subprojects of WWF-CARE
in the Philippines.
[G
Villamor & E Nunez]
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PES
in Vietnam - Finding its Legal Position
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ICRAF Vietnam
has recently witnessed strong success in RUPES program, with
the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE)
and Ministry for Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)
this month clarifying the legal position of Payment for
Environmental Services (PES). MONRE is involved in the
drafting of biodiversity legislation, with a general chapter
dedicated to PES. They are currently providing a more
detailed legal analysis of this area. MARD, on the
other
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hand,
has recently revised the Forest Protection and Development
law to encompass specific requirements on PES
implementation. ICRAF Vietnam was fortunate enough to be
invited by MONRE and MARD to collaborate on these respective
issues.
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ICRAF
has been partnered with these government organizations in
Vietnam since 2004, and the RUPES scheme in Vietnam receives
a great deal of support with funding from IFAD and an
international steering committee comprised of WWF, IIED,
IUCN, Winrock International, CIFOR, and Ford Foundation. The
current legislation can be seen in part as a result of work
undertaken by ICRAF and CIFOR since 2002 in conducting
pre-assessment studies, stakeholder interviews and meetings
to formulate a PES action plan, as well as the contribution
of the participating institutions by 2004.
Poverty-environment linkages are vital in Vietnam where the
poorest residents live in those areas where natural forest
remains and are largely dependent on it for their
livelihoods. [A
Millerd & Minh Ha]
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References
Frequently
Asked Questions on REDD
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation (and Degradation) in
Developing Countries (REDD) has become the more preferred term in
the debate of 'avoided deforestation'.
The flyer provides answers to some frequently asked questions on
REDD.
Avoided Deforestation with Sustainable Benefits
This brochure is an edited version of a formal submission to the
UNFCCC by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in March
2007
It summarizes the case for avoided deforestation with sustainable
benefits as a simple way to reduce carbon emissions from
deforestation and degradation.
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