Understanding what ecosystem services are
Through a workshop stakeholders start to understand how powerful valuing ecosystem services can be as a tool to address relevant policy decisions. Exercises during the workshop based on local cases generate information about local ecosystems, ecosystem services, beneficiaries, stakeholders and issues. Participants start to understand how they can use this tool to create important insights for all-inclusive decision-making. Moreover, during the research, continue to communicate with all stakeholders through newspapers and radio.
- Make sure the workshop contains a representation of all beneficiaries
- Budget to hold the workshop (at least two days including lunch)
- Stakeholders need to have some degree of interest and capacity to understand the material
- High-level policy advisors do not have enough time to take part in workshop. They need to get involved through personal meetings
- Environmentalists are not economists and vice versa
- Be very interactive and keep repeating the message