The Program for Developing Mechanisms for Rewarding the Upland Poor in Asia for Environmental Services They Provide (RUPES)the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)Gouyon, A.2016-04-192016-04-192003RUPES Working Papers2516_Gouyon2003_RUPES_developed_countries.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67019Developed countries have already established a number of mechanisms to implement environmental transfers either within their own country, or towards other countries, including developing nations. The present review looks at a number such of mechanisms with a common matrix of analysis and tries to draw lessons for the design of RUPES mechanisms in Asia. All these mechanisms have been designed to provide reward to farmers for environmental services, and the priority is put on the ones which were clearly targeting upland farmers. Not all these schemes had poverty alleviation as their objective, but many did have a clear social orientation, and in all cases we tried to look at whether these schemes could be targeted to reach poor upland communities.application/pdfen-USIn CopyrightPayments for environmental servicesTransfer paymentsEnvironmental servicesInstitutional capacity buildingPovertyConservationPESDeveloped countriesRupesUpland poorEnvironmental transfer mechanismsUpland farmingUpland poorRupes mechanismsMarket-based mechanismsPerverse incentivesPoverty alleviationMatrix of analysisRewardsConditionalityMonitoringInstitutional developmentTechnical report