Transcript Слайд 1 - World Water Forum

Pilot PES scheme in the Chon-Aksuu
watershed, Kyrgyzstan
December 2011
Simon Charré
The Regional Environmental
Center for Central Asia - CAREC
The Chon Aksuu watershed
Downstream activities:
 Irrigated crop growing
– Water Users
Association
Upstream activities:
 Forestry – Forest administration
 Livestock breeding – Pasture Committee
 Mushroom/medicinal plants picking –
Individual businesses
 Tourism – Individual businesses
Main issues in the watershed
Water quality and quantity for irrigation use – high
level of suspended sediments, water shortages
1. Forest degradation:
- Deforestation
- Soil degradation in the forest
- Weak natural regeneration
2. Overgrazing of pastures
Erosion
Decrease of
water storage in
the soil
Managing the problems through the PES tool
Pasture committee
Mushroom pickers
Forest administration
Tourists
Payment flow
Ecosystem services flow
Water Users Association
The PES scheme
• 4 contracts
 One multilateral
 Three bilaterals
1. Forest administration/WUA
2. Pasture committee/WUA
3. Forest administration/Mushroom
pickers
The payment
1.
The Water Users Association pays in labour
– The Forest Administration: 10 man/day a
year to help in tree plantation, fencing, etc;
– The Pasture Committee: 20 man/day a
year for pasture quality improvement.
2.
The Mushroom Pickers Association pays in
labour the Forest Administration: 30 man/day
a year to help in soil preparation, tree
plantation, etc.
3.
Tourists pay in cash the Forest
Administration the entrance fee in the valley:
20soms/person, 50soms/car.
The conditionality
• The Forest administration must:
- Allocate 10% of the fee collected among tourists to tree plantation;
- Fence new plantations;
- Fence important places for natural regeneration;
- Work together with the Pasture Committee and the village
administration;
• The Pasture Committees must:
- Prepare a Pasture Management plan;
- Follow recommendations on maximum pasture load, repare key
infrastructures to enable the access to remote pastures, fence
temporary some pastures for regeneration;
- Limit and control grazing in the forest areas
Monitoring of the scheme
Key point for the sustainability of the
overall mechanism
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plan/group
Coordination Committee
Monitoring of water quality by water users
Monitoring and Evaluation plan
The M&E plan was designed and approved in
cooperation with all parties involved in the
scheme
1. It concerns the two ecosystems included in
the project: forests and pastures;
2. Will be implemented once a year by a multistakeholder group (12 people);
3. A short report will be written after
implementation and sent to the
Coordination Committee.
Coordination committee
The overall mechanism is supervised by a
multi-stakeholder Coordination Committee: 20
members from different backgrounds and
sectors.
Missions:
1. To meet once a year to evaluate the M&E
report;
2. To extend or amend the PES contract;
3. To organize discussions and solve
controversial issues between parties;
4. To promote the PES tool.
Monitoring of water quality by water
users
• Simple and cheap protocol
• To be regularly implemented to
follow the evolution of suspended
sediments load
• Will show the efficiency of the
activities implemented upstream
Next steps
To improve the present scheme:
•
To work on the possibility to include other
users of the upstream ecosystems as buyers:
medicinal plants pickers, bee keepers, etc;
•
To conduct field work to identify within the
targeted ecosystems the places with the
highest potential to provide water related
ecosystem services;
•
To conduct a reflexion on how to integrate in
the scheme the pastures owned by the forest
administration.
Carbon storage
•
To discuss with the National Agency for
Environmental Protection the opportunity
to use the REDD+ mechanism
•
To evaluate the feasibility of involving
national industries in forest regeneration
and protection
Learning from other experiences
Field trip to Vietnam to visit several PES
projects also addressing water quality
issues
1. How can a cash payment be managed in
the frame of a PES scheme? Is it
feasible in the Chon-Aksuu watershed?
2. How can a PES national strategy be
created and implemented efficiently for
environmental protection and the
maintain of economic activities?