IIED mourns the death of much-loved colleague Ivan Bond

Between January 2004 and September 2009 he was a much-loved senior researcher at IIED, working on the practicalities of payments for environmental services - much on watersheds and latterly on REDD - and a range of other projects. He could turn his hand to many things - always with great communication and humour.

Before IIED he was with WWF in southern Africa, for many years engaged with a wide network of southern Africa protagonists in community based natural resource management. Ivan joined DFID in September last year and quickly became an innovative and invaluable colleague, immersing himself amongst those working on forest and climate issues at a frantic time.

He leaves many, many friends. We know many others will want to join us at IIED in celebrating his memory and perhaps wish to pass on messages to his wife Lee and children Nicholas and Rosa.   

Please see below a selection of Ivan's IIED work:

• Fair deals for watershed services: Lessons from a multi-country action learning project
• Water ecosystem services and poverty under climate change: key issues and research priorities
• Incentives to sustain forest ecosystem services: A review and lessons for REDD
• Fair deals for watershed services in South Africa
• Sustainable Financing of Protected Areas in Cambodia
• Payments for watershed services: opportunities and realities
• Local action, global aspirations
• CAMPFIRE and payments for environmental services