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Theme: Markets for Environmental Services

Project name: Capacity Building and Networking

Dates/Duration: 2001-2005

Project Purpose

The purpose of this project is to build capacity in Southern institutions, and develop guidance by disseminating the lessons from the research on Markets for Environmental Services and by building an international network of interested informed agencies.

Focus

• Held several international workshops of researchers and practitioners from around the world.
• Established a network of partners in several developing (including Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Philippines, South Africa, India, Indonesia and the Caribbean) and developed countries to share lessons on markets for environmental services and to initiate policy research and action-learning.
• Provided on-going inputs to global dialogue on the development of 'pro-poor' markets for environmental services, through participation in meetings and conferences, and the publication of reports, journal articles, news briefs, etc.
• Facilitated a training workshop on Reward Mechanisms in Markets for Environmental Services for environmental practitioners in Thailand in September 2003 for the ICRAF/RUPES initiative in South East Asia.
• Facilitated an information sharing workshop in Quito, Ecuador, in March 2004 in which the partners from the Latin American Markets for Environmental Services case study areas shared their experiences with policy makers and NGOs.

IIED

Ina Porras
Research Associate, EEP
James Mayers
Programme Director, FLU
Sonja Vermeulen
Research Associate, FLU
Elaine Morrison
Research Associate, FLU

Maryanne Grieg-Gran

Director, EEP
James MacGregor

Research Associate, EEP

Key Partners

Costa Rica - CINPE
Ecuador - EcoDecision, EcoCiencia
Philippines - REECS

Donors

The Danish International Development Agency Danida

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC

The Shell Foundation Sustainable Energy Programme

The Darwin Initiative

Additional support for this work is provided under another IIED project "Instruments for sustainable private sector forestry", funded by the UK's Department for International Development and the European Commission.

Further Information

For more information on this research contact Maryanne.Grieg-Gran@iied.org.uk

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