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Article Title | Payments for Watershed Protection Services: Emerging Lessons from the Philippines | Author | Daniel Gaitán Cremaschi, Rodel D. Lasco and Rafaela Jane Delfino | Year | 2013 | Journal Title | Journal of Sustainable Development | Institution | Canadian Center of Science and Education | Volume | 6 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 90-103 | Call Number | JA0475-13 | Keywords | payments for ecosystem services (PES), watershed protection services, Philippines, additionality |
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There is growing interest on payments for ecosystem services (PES) in developing countries including the
Philippines. Watersheds have been degraded through deforestation and subsequent conversion to other land
cover, principally for agriculture. In the last decade, several Payments for Watershed Services schemes have
been implemented and this paper is an attempt to assess the form of incentives or rewards that have been
provided to upland communities in a number of sites under different management leadership in the Philippines.
We reviewed four cases specifically related to watershed services in the: 1) Bakun Watershed, 2) Maasin
Watershed, 3) Sibuyan Watershed, and 4) Baticulan Watershed. The case studies of varying stages of
implementation has shown that the chances of success of PES schemes in promoting watershed conservation and
rehabilitation as well as in improving the livelihoods of upland communities is constrained by incomplete
information and knowledge about the interaction between ecosystem properties and provision of services, and
the difficulty in establishing voluntary participation and conditionality of payments. In this paper, we argued that
institutions may enable or hinder the successful implementation of PES. The role of the local government as
intermediaries is crucial in the process of establishing PES more particularly in the information dissemination
and education of the key stakeholders. The case studies also showed how PES programs are reinforced by the
presence of non-government organizations. |
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