TransLINKS

Inspired by theNature, Wealth, and Powerframework for rural development conceived by the United States Agency for International Development and some of its key natural resources management partners in 2002, TransLinks was a 5.5-year cooperative agreement (2006-2012) funded by the Agency to promote rural transformation by linking natural resources, economic growth, and good governance, in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Forest Trends, Enterprise Works/VITA, University of Wisconsin/Madisons Land Tenure Center, and Columbia Universitys Earth Institute.

The program strove to identify, develop, and disseminate lessons, best practices, and tools from the partners projects around the world that have attempted to apply the new approaches of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and Wildlife FriendlyTM enterprise/value chain certification to support people living in threatened ecosystems, through conservation and sustainable use of the natural resource base upon which their livelihoods depend.