Payments for Watershed Protection Services: Emerging Lessons from the Philippines

Regional Review of Payments for Watershed Services: Sub-Saharan Africa

Poor Household Participation in Payments for Environmental Services: Lessons from the Silvopastoral Project in Quindío, Colombia

As the use of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) approaches in developing countries has grown, concern has arisen over the ability of poorer households to participate. This paper uses data from a PES project being implemented in Quindío, Colombia, to examine the extent to which poorer households that are eligible to participate are in fact able to do so. The project provides a strong tes...

Designing payments for ecosystem services: Lessons from previous experience with incentive-based mechanisms.

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) policies compensate individuals or communities for undertaking actions that increase the provision of ecosystem services such as water purification, flood mitigation, or carbon sequestration. PES schemes rely on incentives to induce behavioral change and can thus be considered part of the broader class of incentive- or market-based mechanisms for environmen...

Lessons emerging from the ICT

The ICT Stories Project is a joint activity of IICD and InfoDev.

Lessons for Autonomic Services from the Design of an Anonymous DoS Protection Overlay

In this paper we report on the design and implementation of a Denial of Service protection overlay, and draw lessons for autonomous services. Our approach is novel in that each node is only aware of a subset of the other nodes within the overlay; the routing topology of the overlay is hidden from internal and external nodes and the overlay uses a distributed monitoring and trust system to detec...