BASIS CRSP Biodiversity Conservation Activities

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BASIS CRSPBiodiversity Conservation Activities

• What is the BASIS CRSP
• Property Rights and Environmental Services and
  Poverty in Indonesia
• Policy Conference on Payment for Environmental
  Services

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What is the BASIS CRSP?

• A social science research network designed to
  improve the life of the rural poor through
  research dedicated to enhancing access to
  resources and to enhancing the access to the
  markets needed to permit people to make better
  use of the resources that they have
• Current research projects include
• Poverty traps and productive social safety nets
• Credit reporting bureaus access to capital
• Policy outreach confernces including upcoming
  (12-13 June) DC symposium Evaluating the Impact
  of innovations in Rural Finance

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Property Rights and Environmental Services and
Poverty in Indonesia

• Watershed encroachment in Lampung province,
  Sumatra
• Community Forestry (HKm) Programconditional
  grant of secure tenure as incentive for
  environmental stewardship
• Challenges in Smallholder Areas
• Transactions costs
• Monitoring
• Inequity
• Primary Research Questions
• Effectiveness
• Distribution

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Policy Conference on Paymentfor Environmental
Services

• Common problems in the design of Payment for
  Environmental Services (PES) in smallholder
  environments
• Goal is to derive best practice and mechanism
  innovation
• Regional differences in PES emphasis
• Latin America watersheds
• Africa wildlife protection
• Asia forests
• Two-stage conference design
• Regional conferences
• Meta-participants
• DC-based summary event