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FLOWS: An Electronic Portal on Markets for Environmental Services. A Project of Forest Trends www.flowsonline.org and flows@forest-trends.org. FLOWS: Objective.
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FLOWS: An Electronic Portal on Markets for Environmental Services A Project of Forest Trends www.flowsonline.org and flows@forest-trends.org
FLOWS: Objective • Facilitate a better understanding of the scope and role of markets, financial incentives, and institutional arrangements as tools in ecosystem management • FLOWS Prototype focuses initially on forests as an option in water resources management
1a. Overview of FLOWS Portfolio • Scope of Work: • Synthesis, exchange, and dissemination • Neutral ‘host’ • Focus: • Global • Markets for Environmental Services • Market Mechanisms
1b. Projects of FLOWS Team • Clients: • IOs: CIFOR, WCD/DDP, FAO, Millennium Ecol. Assess. • NGOs: Forest Trends, WWF-US, WWF-UK, IIED, IUCN • IFAs: World Bank • Govts: Panama, Guatemala
1c. Projects of FLOWS Team • Examples: • Projects: Env. Services in Central America and IWRM in Costa Rica • Policy Review: Protected Area Review in Vietnam • Policy Research: Economics of Nature Tourism, Conservation Finance and Economic Development in KZN, South Africa
1c. Projects of FLOWS Team • Examples: • Synthesis: Briefing Papers on Innovations in Forestry • Training: Short Course on Valuation and Env. Services in Panama • Reviews: What are we Learning from Markets and Payments for Env. Services in Costa Rica?
2. FLOWS: Delivery Systems • Staffing: • Bruce Aylward, Sylvia Tognetti, plus partners and webmaster • Disciplinary Expertise and Decision Tools: • Economic Valuation/Evaluation, Policy and Institutional Analysis, Project Design and Implementation, Multi-stakeholder Participation
2. FLOWS: Delivery Systems • Thematic Coverage: • Water, Biodiversity, Forestry, Energy, Agriculture, Fisheries • Tools: • Listserve, Website, Training, Consulting
3. FLOWS: Gaps and Needs • Up-scaling from prototype requires collaboration and finance • Develop partnerships to enhance information exchange, leverage resources and move the broader agenda forward
FLOWS: a collaborative initiative to • Support the growing number of initiatives and users working to develop markets, financial incentives, and institutional arrangements for environmental services • Facilitate access to state-of-the art research, experience and knowledge through electronic media • Support decision-making by policy-makers, the private sector and communities • Serve as a point of exchange and enhance mutual learning among professionals