In 2008 PRESA core coordination team and partners made progress on site-level implementation of project activities, capacity and partnerships building as well as fund raising.
Workshops
In late April we organized a successful start-up meeting of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) workshop in Entebbe, Kampala. This was followed by site visits and preparations of the project’s 2008 [...]

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By Godfrey Kimega
Thanks to payments from smallholder carbon farming and the sale of traditional crafts made from wetland resources, communities in south-western Uganda can access loans and training, resulting in improved living standards and greater confidence to participate in civil affairs.
Techniques used to mobilize people into caring for their environment have fostered closer co-operation among [...]

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Students from across the world are gaining a practical perspective on rewards for environmental services by working with target communities at PRESA sites.
The PRESA students are liaising with development organizations and government departments as they seek to understand the policy context behind rewards for environmental services.
Currently, PRESA has four students working at the Tanzania and Uganda sites.
Rohit Jindal and Mamta [...]

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It’s been a busy two months for PRESA and its partners at the Sasumua site as water and soil sampling activities get underway.
This month a team from ICRAF and the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology was at the Sasumua Dam catchment collecting water samples for evidence of chemical and biological contamination.
Located about 100 [...]

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The Katoomba meeting was the perfect venue for officially launching PRESA in Tanzania. Many of our collaborators, funders and private sector partners attended the launch, including special guests Mr. Alex Kaaya (CEO of Dar es Salaam Water and Sewerage Company – DAWASCO), and Mrs. Juma Mwatima (IFAD-Tanzania). Mr. Kaaya captivated the audience over dinner with [...]

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A number of themes and questions emerged from the Katoomba meeting. The following points are drawn from the various presentations by PES practitioners from Africa and globally

PES markets are young and it is our responsibility as architects of PES concepts to build a new language [...]

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Ulugurus Mts, Morogoro, Tanzania
From 15-20 September, PRESA staff and collaborators were active at the East and Southern Africa Katoomba Meeting, Taking Stock & Charting a Way Forward: Payments for Ecosystem Services in Africa, in Dar es Salaam. The meeting was an excellent opportunity for learning about the latest PES developments in Africa and beyond, catching [...]

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The PRESA team at ICRAF is excited to be attending the meeting entitled Taking Stock and Charting a Way Forward for Payments for Ecosystem Services in Africa, in Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania from September 16-18, 2008.
We will have a booth at the “PES Trade Fair”  where sellers from the region will exhibit the ecosystem services at their [...]

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The PRESA library currently links you to a wealth of information on payments and rewards for environmental services. You’ll find a collection of ICRAF research such as working papers, journal articles and other publications. As the PRESA project begins to generate its own resources we’ll be sharing them here as well. In addition, you’ll be [...]

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We are proud to launch the new web space for PRESA. We hope it will become a focal point for our project partners, both as a place to get all the latest news, tools and resources, but also a place to share your own news and materials. Over the next few months, we will be [...]

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