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Providing guidance via tools, manuals and methodologies is critical to enhancing participation and supporting involvement of communities in the development of payments and markets for ecosystem services. This Objective facilitates the creation of tools and methodologies (in various languages) for payments for ecosystem services, such as:

  • development of Landscape Measures Indicators tool
  • tools that describe the realm of ecosystem services
    • Conservation and Economy backgrounder
    • Ecosystem Marketplace
      • Case studies on PES
      • White papers
      • Editorials/opinion pieces
      • Features
      • Latest News and Marketwatch
  • tools that help facilitate the development of PES transactions and deals
    • Getting Started: An Introductory Primer to Assessing & Developing Payments for Ecosystem Service Deals
    • Negotiating for Nature’s Services: A Primer for Sellers of Ecosystem Services on Identifying and Approaching Private Sector Prospective Buyers
    • Manuals on methodological best practices (upcoming)
    • Guidelines for developing project concept notes and business plans (upcoming)
  • providing materials specifically tailored to community-based perspectives
    • web-based Community Portal (part of the Ecosystem Marketplace)
    • translations and visual-based formats of key PES tools above
CCM Objectives

Learning Networks

This Objective supports natural resource managers and other stakeholders to understand and implement ecoagriculture approaches and payments for ecosystem services through the facilitation of knowledge exchanges.

Landscape Indicators

This Objective seeks to help innovators assess, plan and measure the social, economic and ecological outcomes of landscape-scale management initiatives.

Policies for Integrating Land Use & Ecosystems

This Objective helps public sector actors evaluate policy options and catalyze strategic action to support and scale up ecoagriculture and PES.

Ecosystem Service Tools

This Objective focuses on developing learning resources for partners in the learning networks to use to attract financing for conservation projects.

Ecosystem Service Payments & Markets

This Objective focuses on supporting institutional development and learning on the design and implementation of PES models and deals.

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