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
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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]
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