Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation

Regional Situation Analyses

Amazon/Andes region

Consortium Director: Dr Roberto Porro, Amazon Initiative Consortium for Conservation & Sustainable Resource Use, Brazil
Partners: Dr Silvia Benitez, The Nature Conservancy, USA
Dr Jorge Rubiano, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Dr Mark Mulligan, King's College London, UK
Dr Luis German Naranjo, WWF, Colombia
Dr Andy Jarvis, International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, Colombia

Period of Award: 13.08.07 - 12.03.08
Value: £250,580
Project website: www.ecosystemsandpoverty.org

Semiarid sub-Saharan Africa region

Consortium Director: Prof Christo Fabricius, Khanya-African Institute for Community-Driven Development

Partners: Prof Charlie Shackleton, Rhodes University, South Africa
Kees Vogt, SOS-Sahel International-CRAC-GRN, Niger
Michael Mortimer, Drylands Research
Ivan Bond, International Institute for Environment & Development, UK
Mark Smith, World Conservation Union (IUCN), Switzerland

Period of Award: 13.08.07 - 12.03.08
Value: £249,910

China region

Consortium Director: Prof Zhang Li-Jian, Chinese Academy for Agricultural Science

Partners: Prof Ma Zonglin, Ningxia Centre for Environment and Poverty Alleviation, China
Prof Wu Zhandong, Ningxia Development and Reform Commission, China
Dr Neville Ash, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK
Dr Loke Wai Hong, CAB International, Malaysia
Dr Christine Tam, Stanford University (The Natural Capital Project), USA
Dr Andrew Challinor, Walker Institute for Climate Systems Research at the University of Reading, UK

Period of Award: 10.09.07 - 09.04.08
Value: £266,971
Project website: www.espachina.org

India Hindu Kush Himalaya region

Consortium Director: Dr RK Pachauri, The Energy & Resources Institute, India

Partners: Dr Lucy Emerton, World Conservation Union (IUCN), Sri Lanka
Prof Ed Maltby, Institute for Sustainable Water, Integrated Management and Ecosystem Research (SWIMMER) at the University of Liverpool, UK
Dr Imran Matin, BRAC University, Bangladesh
Dr Shaheen Khan, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan

Period of Award: 06.08.07 - 05.03.08
Value: £254,977
Project website: www.espassa.org

Thematic Situation Analyses

Urban/rural interactions: the desakota assessment

Consortium Director: Dipak Gyawali, Institute for Social & Environmental Transition-Nepal, Nepal

Partners: Dr Marcus Moench, Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, USA
Dr Daanish Mustafa, King's College London, UK

Period of Award: 01.10.07 - 30.04.08
Value: £294,739

Marine and coastal assessment

Consortium Director: Professor Katrina Brown, Overseas Development Group/School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK;

Partners: Dr Edward Allison, World Fish Center, Penang, Malaysia
Dr Graham Pilling, CEFAS, UK
Professor Rudy van der Elst, Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban, South Africa
Dr Tim McClanahan, Coral Reef Conservation Project, Mombasa, Kenya
Dr Ida Siason, University of the Philippines-Visayas, Philippines
Mrs Nguyen Thu Hue, The Centre for Marinelife Conservation & Community Development, Vietnam

Period of Award: 18.02.08 - 17.09.08
Value: £249,415

Details of assessment panel membership

ESPA panel membership