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Community Payments for Ecosystem Services in Patako | Plan Vivo PDD 2012
security or displace other land-­‐uses. The plan vivos are available to the Plan Vivo Foundation and
to external validation or certification agents.
Arlomom has contracts with individual participants and with women’s groups (See the sample
contract in Appendix D). Each women’s group has both a PES contract with Arlomom and a written
benefit sharing agreement that describes how the women’s group will share benefits fairly
amongst themselves through disbursement of payments, investments, or development of
livelihood activities.
Before additional participants enter the project, additional funding must be obtained. For new
participants to enter the project, they are required to demonstrate land title by registering their
land with their Rural Council. Women’s groups will register as associations with their Rural Council
so that the group may legally hold land title.
Where the fee to register land title or an association is too much for new participants to pay as a
lump sum, Bioclimate has made an advance payment to cover the cost of registration. This may be
considered an advance payment of PES or a loan to the participants.
5 Project governance and financial
structure
5.1. Project organisational structure
Arlomom
Arlomom, an association in Senegal, is coordinating the project. Arlomom (Dieuppeul I, villa n°
2176, Dakar, Sénégal) was registered as an association on 28 June 2011. Members of Arlomom are
part of the Institute of Sciences and the Environment (ISE) and Natural Ecosystems and the
Environment Unit (URENE), both of which are associated with Cheikh Anta Diop University in
Dakar (UCAD). The Arlomom Patako project is being developed under the supervision of
UNDESERT coordination. Please see Appendix A for a list of responsible staff.
Arlomom carries out the following functions:
• Management of project implementation
• Community engagement
• Technical functions
• Management of the PES trust fund and benefit sharing
Figure 4 shows the organisational structure of the Arlomom Association and how it works with
communities.