Presentation made in the Multi-stakeholder Dialogue in PSD/PES
12-13 September 2013
FAO, Rome
Marcela Quintero (CIAT), Roger Loyola (MINAM), Yolanda Puemape (MINAM)
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Report on the implementation of the Kabe Watershed Pilot Project in Ethiopia,...ILRI
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Overview of faecal sludge management challenges and practicesIRC
Presentation by Erick Baetings during the Faecal Sludge Management Lunch Meeting in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 17 April 2014.
This meeting was organised by IRC with support from DGIS.
Large scale investments in African agriculture could lead to increased agricultural productivity and improved incomes. But they could also displace of current land users - so called "land grabs". This study, presented by IWMI's Tim Williams at the 2015 World Water Week in Stockholm, attempts to assess the benefits and risks.
Report on the implementation of the Kabe Watershed Pilot Project in Ethiopia,...ILRI
Presented by Kindu Mekonnen, Alan Duncan and Beth Cullen (ILRI) at the Workshop on the Lessons and Success Stories from a Pilot Project on Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in Kabe watershed, south Wollo, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 11-12 February 2013
Overview of faecal sludge management challenges and practicesIRC
Presentation by Erick Baetings during the Faecal Sludge Management Lunch Meeting in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 17 April 2014.
This meeting was organised by IRC with support from DGIS.
To arrest the decline in groundwater levels, Atal Bhujal Yojana or Atal Jal - perhaps India’s largest community led groundwater management program till date - was launched in December 2019. This presentation provides an overview of the scheme, its objectives, key features, disbursement linked indicators and possible interventions.
Presented by IWMI's David Wiberg (Theme Leader – Water Futures) to a group of European Union (EU) delegations in Asia at a discussion on 'Using research on agriculture climate and water to support sustainable food systems', held at IWMI Headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 8, 2016.
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.
CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture) played a significant role in influencing policy change at the national level in Peru regarding ecosystem services.
Presented by Olufunke Cofie at the National WASH Action Plan Research and Capacity Building Agenda Setting Workshop in Abuja, Nigeria on February 17-18, 2020.
Presented by Dr. Anna Mdee, Mzumbe University/University of Sussex at the workshop on “New Directions for Irrigation Development in Tanzania: The Context of Public Private Partnership”, September 2, 2016.
This presentation was used for an in-house IRC discussion on MUS, that took place 22 June 2012. Topics: new research evidence; MUS practices and Institutional opportunities and barriers for scaling MUS.
Bridging the gap through participatory aquifer mappingv2biometrust
The greatest challenge of groundwater management is therefore the need to
embed management responses in the practices of this universe of dispersed actors. Yet our
understanding of Aquifers, the logical “unit” for groundwater management is very poor. While
administrative boundaries help us organize our governance on the surface, aquifers under our
feet don‟t necessarily follow any of these boundaries. How, then, do we evolve a way of
understanding our aquifers and enabling aquifer management responses based on this
understanding? This report details the process of participatory aquifer mapping in Yamalur watershed, in Bangalore.
To arrest the decline in groundwater levels, Atal Bhujal Yojana or Atal Jal - perhaps India’s largest community led groundwater management program till date - was launched in December 2019. This presentation provides an overview of the scheme, its objectives, key features, disbursement linked indicators and possible interventions.
Presented by IWMI's David Wiberg (Theme Leader – Water Futures) to a group of European Union (EU) delegations in Asia at a discussion on 'Using research on agriculture climate and water to support sustainable food systems', held at IWMI Headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 8, 2016.
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.
CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture) played a significant role in influencing policy change at the national level in Peru regarding ecosystem services.
Presented by Olufunke Cofie at the National WASH Action Plan Research and Capacity Building Agenda Setting Workshop in Abuja, Nigeria on February 17-18, 2020.
Presented by Dr. Anna Mdee, Mzumbe University/University of Sussex at the workshop on “New Directions for Irrigation Development in Tanzania: The Context of Public Private Partnership”, September 2, 2016.
This presentation was used for an in-house IRC discussion on MUS, that took place 22 June 2012. Topics: new research evidence; MUS practices and Institutional opportunities and barriers for scaling MUS.
Bridging the gap through participatory aquifer mappingv2biometrust
The greatest challenge of groundwater management is therefore the need to
embed management responses in the practices of this universe of dispersed actors. Yet our
understanding of Aquifers, the logical “unit” for groundwater management is very poor. While
administrative boundaries help us organize our governance on the surface, aquifers under our
feet don‟t necessarily follow any of these boundaries. How, then, do we evolve a way of
understanding our aquifers and enabling aquifer management responses based on this
understanding? This report details the process of participatory aquifer mapping in Yamalur watershed, in Bangalore.
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Marcela Quintero, gave this presentation to IFAD colleagues in Rome, in the context of sharing results from the 10 years of CPWF, CIAT and MINAM work on Payment for Ecosystem Services and Benefit Sharing Mechanisms, Sept. 11, 2013
Sustinable water Infrastructure Through Innovative FinancingIwl Pcu
Purpose: To quantitatively understand the future needs for water investment to:
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Presentation by Beria Leimona, Rachman Pasha, Tony Setiawan, Suyanto, and Bruno Verbist. This is a case study of a RUPES Project at Sumberjaya Watershed, Lampung Province, Indonesia.
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Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
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• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
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Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
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GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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Bob Boule
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Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
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GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
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The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
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https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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3. Peruvian case study, Canete River watershed – Current situation
Upper basin
(4000-5800
(4000-5800
(4000-5800
Ecosystemanduse (m3/s)
Water service provision
River flow land uses
(Water yield (mm))
Extensive degrading 0
grazing, subsistence
agriculture(mostly from springs)
1111-1507
Middle basin
(350 – 4000
(350 – 4000
(350 – 4000
Hydropower company
51-256
Shrimp growers
250, 64
Lower basin
(0-350)
(0-350)
(0-350)
Urban dwellers 0-50
Water inefficient commercial agriculture
Tourists (rafting)
4. Desired situation
Upper basin
(4000-5800
Investment in
conservation
alternatives
Middle basin
(350 – 4000
Lower basin
(0-350)
Watershed’s
socioeconomic
asymmetries might
be balanced by this
benefit-sharing
mechanism
Transfer
part of their
benefits
Rewards as a benefit-sharing
mechanism
“Transfer of resources between social actors, which aims
to create incentives to align individual and/or collective
land use decisions with the social interest in the
management of natural resources”(Muradian et al., 2010)
5. Key fact: The Canete PES scheme is
designated as the MINAM’s offical pilot
case
TIMELINE
Key fact: Legal feasibility
in one of the main gaps
limiting the advance
towards PES negotiation
MINAM chooses Canete Basin as
its pilot site for designing a PES
Scheme. CIAT, CARE and WWF are
invited to support this initiative.
CIAT is asked to conduct
respective hydrological and
economic analyses .
2009
Various meetings jointly
organized between MINAM,
CIAT and CARE-WWF with
multiple local stakeholders to
socialize and receive feedback
on the PES initiative and
research results.
January
2011
2010
CIAT includes Canete as the
Peruvian study site in a project
supported by the CPWF
Key fact: The existence
of an explicit interest or
initiative to create a PES
schemes was a
precondition to select
study sites for the
project
Consevation InternationaI
supports the legal analysis
for implementing the
scheme in Canete
CIAT conducted studies on
economic valuation and
hydrological priority areas as
inputs for PES design
MINAM disseminated the PES
initiative widely and kept
supporting it even after two
changes of Ministry and one
change of government
6. Some bottlenecks to move towards
implementation
• The lack of recognition of PES schemes in the legislation: the legitimacy seems
to be a bottleneck that holds local and regional authorities up in the promotion
of these mechanisms.
• Obstacles to allocate potable water users contributions in a RES scheme (in
Peru): There are legal bottlenecks to collect contributions via water charges
payment system and transfer this to a private-public fund (ie. RES Fund). Similar
occurs with public funds coming from local governments.
• Conceptual approach: The main motivation for initiating RES initiatives in some
cases is to protect currently delivered ES and to reward land managers for this.
• Requires multi-sectorial coordination: Water management and environmental
protection under different sectors
• There are not current watershed-level platforms to take collective decisions
regarding watershed management upon which RES can be built
7. TIMELINE (2)
IFAD approached MINAM with
the purpose of supporting the
creation of a Trust Fund to
start up the operation of the
PES scheme in Canete. A GEFIFAD project was formulated
(pending for approval)
Based on legal analysis
recommendations, PES
implementation actions
incorporated in the action
plan of the Natural Reserve
(upstream area).
2011
Actors from multiple disciplines
came together to be part of a
ESS Law discussion group led by
MINAM. CIAT/CPWF part of the
invitees
Key fact: CIAT is
invited by IFAD and
MINAM to be part of
the project
formulation mission.
Technical-sciencebased project results
are taken into
account in this.
2012
There is a final version of the
Law to be subject of public
consultation and congress
approval
Key fact: Law discussion considered
lessons learned from practice
including Canete regarding the
conceptual approach, institutional
bottle necks, legal constraints, etc.
8. Scheme for Rewarding for Waterrelated Ecosystem Services
Watershed
committee
$
Farmers in hydrological priority areas
of the highlands of rivers Canete (and
Jequetepeque)
Willing to co-invest in :
-Rehabilitation of wetlands
-Conservation of andean relict forest
-Improving farming practices in
slopping lands
Farmers receive training and capital to
invest in the new practices
$
ES beneficiaries (urban water
users, hydropower company,
tourists, irrigated agriculture
9. Overcoming bottlenecks for RES implementation
Remaining gaps
Proposed law
•
•
•
•
•
Offical recognition of RES,
eventhough are voluntary
Definition of RES: Rewards and
incentives
Avoid perverse incentives
Enable transfer of urban water
users contributions into RES funds
Highlights the importance of
articulating PES with existing land
and water use/management plans
•
•
How to become voluntary contributions in a
legally binding to ensure continuity
Management design that guarantees
independency and transparency
Canete institutional arrangement for
implementation
•
•
•
Creation of ad-hoc watershed committee for
PES governance possible transition towards
watershed councils
National organization that currently manages
conservation project will manage the PES
Fund
High replicability potential
10. Lessons learned
Private sector participation:
From the ES beneficiaries’ side: Relatively easier than
having public support, as long as there is willingness of
private sector to participate.
From ES providers’ side: There are two aspects that would
need to be refined prior to actual rewards disbursement.
– Details about land management alternatives to guarantee
effectiveness
– Due to the lack of land titles in some areas, it is needed a
field recognition of who is actually having control on land
and under what type of land tenure. Based on this
contractual agreements would need to be shaped.