CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture) played a significant role in influencing policy change at the national level in Peru regarding ecosystem services.

1. PERU’S ECOSYSTEM
SERVICES LAW
Impacts of CIAT Cañete
River Basin Project

2. Policy Influence Pathway
Many factors can influence national policy changes. In
the case of Peru, this started with non-research based
influences, knowledge creation, policy formulation, and
eventually policy outcomes.
On the following slide you can see a visual
representation of this relationship.

3. Adapted From Renkow and Byerlee 2014
TIME
Non-Research Based
Influences
Policy Formulation
Knowledge Creation
Policy Impacts
Policy Outcomes
Research
Outputs

4. Ecosystem Services in Peru
2004
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are voluntary
transactions between service users and service
providers, conditional on agreed rules of natural
resource management, for generating offsite services.
CPWF-CIAT-GTZ-CONDESAN the first PES scheme
in Peru is located in the Moyobamaba
watershed.

5. Ecosystem Services in Peru
2008
The Ministry of Environment of Peru is created.
2010
Formal collaboration agreement between
CIAT and MINAM is signed.
MINAM initiates process to evaluate and
design a Reward Mechanism for Water-
Related Ecosystem Services (MRSEH) in the
Cañete River Basin as official PES pilot case.
2010
MINAM and its advisors are actors
targeted into the AN2 Outcome
Logic Model, CIAT includes Cañete as
the Peruvian study site.

6. Cañete River Basin Pilot
Water users in Cañete River basin include farmers and
rural households in the upper part, shrimp farmers and
hydropower companies at the mid-level, and more
farmers, industry, and the urban population of Cañete
town downstream.
Local water users have an explicit interest in developing
a benefit sharing mechanism in order to maintain a
healthy ecosystem and long-term water supply.

7. 2010
CIAT researchers analyzed with the Instituto
Interamericano de Cooperación para la
Agricultura (IICA) the bottlenecks that hindered
implementation of reward mechanisms in Peru.
2011
CIAT conducted studies on economic valuation
and hydrological priority areas as inputs for the
study.
2011
Actors from multiple disciplines came together to
be part of a ESS law discussion group led by
MINAM and CIAT.
2011
MINAM disseminated the PES initiative widely and
kept supporting it even after two changes of
Ministry and one change of government
Ecosystem Services in Peru

8. Policy Formulation – Activities
Through multi-stakeholder meetings, CIAT and its
partners found that water users downstream
recognize the benefits they receive from the
ecosystem upstream and are willing to reward the
upstream communities for maintaining the
ecosystem.

9. 2013
International Fund for Agricultural Development
(IFAD) approached MINAM with the purpose of
creating a Trust Fund to start up the operation of
the PES scheme in Cañete. An IFAD Global
Environment Facility project was formed.
2014
CIAT’s “bottlenecks” study, which identified
limitations that hinder implementation of PES, is
the basis of discussions to identify what needed
to be overcome in PES regulation.
Ecosystem Services in Peru

10. 2015
In 2014 and 2015, CIAT actively participated in the
organization and implementation of 5 macro-
regional workshops led by MINAM, to share
results of the bottlenecks study.
2014
Peruvian congress passed the law, which
promotes and regulates rewards for ecosystem
services schemes throughout the country.
2015
CIAT recently signed a new five-year agreement
with the ministry to help it with developing more
specific regulations and registration processes.
Ecosystem Services in Peru

11. 2016
Water users in the Cañete river lower basin now
have a way to make voluntary contributions.
Communities in the upper watershed are already
applying to the IFAD trust fund.
Ecosystem Services in Peru

12. 2016
July 21, 2016, Peruvian government approved
regulations of Law No. 30215 - Law on Compensation
Mechanisms for Ecosystem Services (MRSE).
Ecosystem Services in Peru

13. Sources
CIAT Blog. (2016). Perú avanza en la implementación de la Ley de Mecanismos de Retribución por Servicios
Ecosistémicos. http://blog.ciat.cgiar.org/es/peru-avanza-en-la-implementacion-de-la-ley-de-mecanismos-de-
retribu
cion-por-servicios-ecosistemicos/
Peru Ministry of the Environment. (2016). Aprueban Reglamento de la Ley de Mecanismos de Retribución por
Servicios Ecosistémicos.http://www.minam.gob.pe/notas-de-prensa/hoy-fue-aprobado-el-reglamento-de-la-
ley-de-mecanismos-de-retribucion-por-servicios-ecosistemicos/
Renkow, M. and D. Byerlee. (2014). Assessing the Impact of Policy-Oriented Research: a Stocktaking.
Paper prepared for a workshop on Assessing the Impact of Policy-Oriented Research, Washington D.C. November
11-12 2014.