Costs of delivery approaches for providing livelihood projects to local communities as part of REDD+ programmes: An analysis from Madagascar
| Autor: | Mialy Razafindrazakasoa, Andoniaina Rambeloson, Luciano Andriamaro, James L. MacKinnon, Celia A. Harvey |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0106 biological sciences
Transaction cost Benefit sharing Natural resource economics Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Livelihood 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Pollution Forest resource Work (electrical) Deforestation Business 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Nature and Landscape Conservation Water Science and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Conservation. 45:324-332 |
| ISSN: | 1469-4387 0376-8929 |
| Popis: | SUMMARYProviding benefits to local people from forest conservation programmes is an important issue for policy makers. Livelihood projects are a common way to provide benefits, but there is little information about their costs. We analysed 463 livelihood projects in the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) pilot project in Madagascar to understand how different approaches to delivering livelihood projects affect costs. We compared costs across four approaches: conservation agreements, small grants, direct implementation and application of social safeguards. The approach impacted overall costs and the proportion of funds reaching communities. Projects implemented as safeguards were most expensive and had the lowest proportion of expenditures reaching the community. Projects provided as part of conservation agreements directed the highest proportion of expenditures to communities. Our results highlight that how livelihood projects are delivered has implications for project costs and community benefits and should be an important consideration in the design and implementation of REDD+ and forest conservation policies. |
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