Securing private sector commitment to watershed Rewards for Environmental Services (RES) agreements in Africa is a challenge. This is partially due to the scarcity of downstream beneficiaries, the prevailing policy and institutional arrangements and the internal inefficiencies of some of the businesses. Using the Sasumua case study, we found that the business case based on improving water quality through sediment reduction is weak; the bigger challenge is increasing and maintaining water flows where the most immediate action for companies is not so much upstream land uses, but management and governance of water pipes between the reservoirs and water users. PRESA is currently exploring three avenues for engaging private sector in RES: using the Applied Information Economics approach to re-examine the business case for optimizing decisions for PES in reservoir management; analyzing policy and institutional frameworks for PES; and engaging stakeholders to consider the fund mechanism, disbursing conditional payments for good land use practices.
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1. WATERSHED PES IN AFRICA
FINDING SOLUTIONS THAT REDUCE TRADE-OFFS
IN LANDSCAPES
2. Private sector and alternative financing for ES in PRESA sites
Site Direct private sector Alternative financial
ES beneficiary sources for ES incentives
Albertine Rift Mini-hydropower dam Eco-certification of crafts and
- Uganda honey
Ulugurus - Tz DAWASCO; Coca Cola
Usambaras - Tanga City water
Tz Company
Sasumua - NCWSC WSTF, Nature Conservancy,
Kenya World Bank Fund; Green
microfinance agency
Nyando River No private sector buyer Public agencies: NEMA;
Basin - LVMP; World Bank Fund
Kenya
Embu - KENGEN Nature Conservancy
Kenya Government Project:
TANRMP; World Bank Fund
Fouta Djallon Coyah Bottling Company Mining L D A G R O F O R E S T R Y
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companies CENTRE
Guinea
3. Sediment sources in Sasumua
Low erosion rates from the
forest
High rates on some
agricultural areas, exceeding
11.2 tons/ha/year
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4. Potential to improve water partitioning and reduce
soil erosion through landuse interventions
Sediment yield
Surface Base flow Water yield (×103 tons/
Landuse
runoff (mm) (mm) (mm) year)
Base case 193 488 680 32.6
Contour farming 162 514 675 16.6
% change -16.1 +7.6 -0.7 49
Terracing 151 525 674 4.9
% change -21.8 +5.3 -0.9 85
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5. CASE FOR PES: NAIROBI WATER COMPANY
Grassed waterway causing 20% reduction in
sedimentation
Costs with Costs without
PES PES
6. ALIGNING ES DEMAND WITH SUPPLY
Sasumua conversations
PES can reduce We pay multiple levies
sedimentation to government
NCWC
Science We have no mandate
WSTF
PES can make a strong That is small change
business case – net savings
NCWC
Science
We are willing to accept payment We are willing to pay more
for improving land use
Nairobi City
WRUA
We have no authority to increase tariffs
NCWC
We can provide We want more regular
improved quality flows and quantity
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WRUA Nairobi City
7. Institutional structure for Catchment management
OTHER SOURCES WRMA
WSTF
Water abstractor/
utility company
WRUAS
Catchment management plans
Current level of land management does not provide satisfactory watershed services
Farmers are not obligated to invest in conservation above legal and societal expectations
Optional community driven development (CDD) is availableOto L D A G R O F O R Eindividuals T R E
W R CBOs and not S T R Y C E N
8. Current insights from PES Research
CES: Commoditized Environmental Services
Direct interaction ES providers &beneficiaries
Recurrent monetary payments
Rewards are too small and a
broader outlook of PES
mechanisms is necessary
CIS: Co-Investment in COS: Compensating for
(landscape) Stewardship Opportunities Skipped
A flexible contract with broad Recurrent payment for proxies
sanctions for
Entrust resource management to Accepting restrictions
local communities Achievement of a condition
Based on management plan high W O R effort R O F O R E S T R Y C E N T R E
or L D A G
social capital
9. Looking forward
• Scaling from project-based to national level integration of PES
approaches into institutions and policies
• Increasing and ensuring sustainable private sector commitment
• Optimising business case for private sector investment
• Public-to-public PES in managing trans-boundary resources (e.g.,
Nile river; Congo forest etc.)
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