In this International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) scoping study conducted for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the authors identify Butare and Kibungo districts in Rwanda as areas that should be the focus of development. Both have all four ecosystem services stressed and four constituents of well-being threatened. Policy-makers need to understand more fully the links between ecosystem services and well-being.
This report provides a preliminary review of ecosystem services in Rwanda and the corresponding constituents and determinants of well-being related to the availability of these services. This paper is one of seven scoping studies prepared by the International Institute for Sustainable Development for the United Nations Environment Programme.