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							Group 2: Natural Resources Management
    and Sustainable Livelihoods –
     National Lessons and Actions




                Presented on 10 June 2008
                      Plenary Session
      13th Poverty and Environment Partnership Meeting
    4 Projects, 4 Countries
• Recent Natural Resource Management Experience in
  Pakistan (Usman Iftikhar, UNDP)
• Experience in Payment for Ecosystem Services in Viet
  Nam (Richard McNally, WWF)
• Making Conservation People’s Choice: A Tool to Close
  the Gap Between Conservation and Poverty
  Reduction (Patricia Zurita, CI)
• Biodiversity, Human Well Being and Health in the
  Philippines (Rowena Boquiren, CI)
         Numbers Count
• Disaggregating data is important (overall
  results can mask important differences
  among groups)
• Income does not tell you everything
• Data essential to formulating conservation
  agreements (commitments to action, how
  much will communities be paid)
• Lack of measurement can have major impacts
  on policy
            People Count
• Support of key authorities is important, but
  communities also produce champions
• Close engagement with communities is
  essential to formulating projects that are
  relevant to their needs
• Coming to an understanding of individual
  incentives is important (PES, conservation
  agreements)
• Success at local level can stimulate replication
  hortizontally and nationally
      Building Alliances
• NGOs are labs of innovation
• Where have all the rural
  development specialists gone?
• Don’t forget the business
  community
Thank You!