This is a synoptic analysis of the opportunities as well as th e disincentives in the Kenya’s environmental and poverty reductio n policy framework for the adoption of integrated processes and the use of PES mechanisms. Given that national policies and legislation provide frameworks for the mainstreaming provisions of the Multilateral Environmental Assessments (MEA), national action plans were analyzed vis-à-vis ongoing or evolving activities. This was aimed at exploring the possibility of pursuing bundled markets for ecosystem services (MES) for pro visioning, regulating, supporting and cultural services. This analysis has shown that: i) different environmental policies and poverty reduction strategies po tentially affect integrated pro cesses and adoption of MES, ii) the how of implementing the strategies so as to reduce negative impacts on ecosystem services are not clear and left to the district to decide plans, projects and programmes for their implementation, iii) th e translation of the national action plans into projects or programs are consistent with what is pro vided for in the plans, iv) the activities implemented to achieve the different MEA objectives synergize one another therefore offering potential opportunities for the adoption of bundled MES, and finally v) MES provide opportuni ties for integrated policy formulation, implementation and monitoring at different scales.
Publication year
2007
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
ecology, ecosystems, markets
Geographic
Kenya
