central america

Networks

EfD-CA has an extended list of national and international partners which provide a wide range of network support to projects and initiatives around the core issues in research, policy advice, and training. This network has been built on throughout the years the Center has been in operation. Our goal is to solidify our current alliances and to broaden our network in order to achieve greater impact in Central America.

We recently signed an agreement with Costa Rica´s National Forestry Financing Fund (FONAFIFO) which would allow us to continue our work on Ecosystem Services and payments schemes. In collaboration with Alexander Pfaff from The Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, EfD-CA is working on evaluations of impacts of protected areas in Costa Rica, Mexico, and Brazil, with financial support from the Inter-American Development Bank and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research.

The work on protected areas in Costa Rica continues to tackle issues on evaluation, financing, and decentralization of the provision of basic services but is expanding by including institutional and policy analysis of the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services provision. This is done in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, the National System of Protected Areas (SINAC), and the Forever Costa Rica Association.

Furthermore, other important partners in the Latin America and the Caribbean are the Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP), and several programs within CATIE, and the National Institute of Ecology in Mexico.

EfD-CA is also working in a four year collaboration with the Climate Change and Water Program of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada on the project “Strengthening the capacity building and research in environmental economics to study the links between water and climate change”.

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