Payment for Ecosystem Services: Developing Forest Carbon Projects in Nepal
De Gryze, Steven
,
Durschinger, Leslie
,
Koontz, Ann
,
Pandey, Shiva
,
Subedi, Bhishma
Payment for Ecosystem Services: Developing Forest Carbon Projects in Nepal
This case/fesibility study builds on the decade+ of work withcommunity forest user groups in Nepal, to identify the potential for forest carbon projects (PES/REDD+) to add another economic incentive to the tremendous success that has already been achieved with CBNRM for trees and non-timber forest products. It summarizes the eligibility requirements under the various carbon markets and registries - Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), Clean Development Mechanism (CDM, and Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA); and provides a specific case feasibility analysis from Dolakha District in Nepal
Michael Colby
USAID/E3/LTRM
2013-03-06
none
EnterpriseWorks/VITA
- Project technical document (e.g. focusing on one or more aspects, such as technical approach, monitoring, application of a specific tool, etc)
- Other - enter below
- Site-based case study
Feasibility analysis
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- Asia
Nepal
Dolakha District
USAID, Norway
Nepal REDD+ project
- NTFPs
- Forest
- Whole Landscape
- Forest Carbon
- Fostered innovation, social learning, and adaptive management - [Relevant]
- Improved information and knowledge management systems - [Relevant]
- Built capacity and invested in human resources - [Relevant]
- Promoted local land use planning and appropriate resource tenure systems - [Relevant]
- Promoted cost effective technical advisory and intermediary services - [Relevant]
- Assured that resource managers have access to NRM means and benefits - [Relevant]
- Promoted or developed economic strategies for natural resource management - [Relevant]
- Proportional equivalence between benefits and costs - [Relevant]
- Strengthened markets and NRM market incentives - [Relevant]
- Local stakeholder input into public decisions and policy - [Relevant]
- Natural resource authority and functions distribution - [Critical]
- Continuous and inclusive consultations - [Critical]
- Tree tenure rights
- Devolution to communities
- Resource user groups
- Payments for ecosystem services
- Environmental/productivity - [Household]
- Environmental/productivity - [Communal]
- Environmental/productivity - [Gender]
- Economic/income generation - [Yes]
- Governance/empowerment - [Yes]
- Economic/income generation - [Household]
- Governance/empowerment - [Communal]
- Economic/income generation - [Gender]
- Environmental/productivity - [Communal]
- Environmental/productivity - [Household]
- Governance/empowerment - [Household]
- Economic/income generation - [Communal]
- Environmental/productivity - [Gender]
- Governance/empowerment - [Gender]
- Lessons learned (Cautionary Tale)
- Lessons learned (Success Story)
- Governance - [External or structural policies that influenced success or failure]
- Economic - [External or structural policies that influenced success or failure]
- Resources - [External or structural policies that influenced success or failure]
