Sweden, SIDA

This guide aims at making accessible the main concepts and methods of economic valuation of the monetary value of goods and services rendered by natural ecosystems in general. This text is designed for all actors involved in the economic valuation of ecological services. It was deliberately simplified in order to enable all economist and non-economist actors to take ownership of it.

The primary aim of these guidelines is to assist programme officers at Sida to review EIAs. However, since both reviewing and making an EIA are based on the same concept, most of what is said about reviewing EIAs is also applicable to making EIAs. Therefore, these guidelines can also be of use to partners in cooperation who can obtain a picture of Sida's intentions regarding EIAs, Sida's requirements in this connection and, not least, general knowledge about EIAs.