FSC GD / Milan Reška
Project title
Asia Pacific Regional Forest Stewardship Standard for Smallholders
Type
Standard
Project Coordinator
Project Supervisor
Start date
May 2018
End date
January 2020
Organizational process assets
- FSC Global Strategic Plan 2015–2020
- FSC-STD-60-006 (V1-2) EN Process requirements for the development and maintenance of National Forest Stewardship Standards
Purpose
To develop a regional smallholder standard to:
- Focus only on smallholder operations and write the indicators in more simple language;
- Address concerns expressed by stakeholders, certificate holders and certification bodies;
- Consider the inclusion of new mechanisms to improve smallholder certification access and cost;
- Cover four critical countries in the Asia Pacific Region; India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.
Strategic alignment
At the 2017 General Assembly in Vancouver, Canada, the membership approved Motion 46 with a focus on exploring additional ways of making FSC policy and standards more relevant to small forest owners, which included exploring the existing flexibility of FSC system.
Technical Advisory Group
|
Name |
Expertise |
Email address |
|
Michael Brady Joko Sarjito Untung Karnonto Thesis Budiarto Piyathip Eawpanich Chittiwat Silapat Prasnee Tipraqsa Dung Tri Ngo Suneel Pandey |
Non-Voting Chair Indonesia – Env. Indonesia – Soc. Indonesia – Econ. Thailand – Env. Thailand – Econ. Thailand – Soc. Vietnam – Env. Vietnam – Econ. Vietnam – Env. India – Econ. India – Env. India – Soc. |
Timeline
June - July 2020
Draft 2 public consultation
Spring 2020
The Technical Advisory Group has approved Draft 2
Autumn 2019
Field tests conducted in all four countries
Spring 2019
Target consultation on Draft 1 was launched for 30 days
11 November 2018
First Technical Advisory Group meeting to discuss Draft 0
07 November 2018
Terms of Reference (ToR) approved.
15 September - 15 November 2018
Open call for stakeholders to join Consultative Forum for developing FSC Regional Forest Stewardship Standard for smallholders for India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam
Contact Loy Jones to join the Consultative Forum.
01 August - 09 October 2018
Set up of the Technical Advisory Group
See list of members in table above
30 August 2018
Begin work on Draft 0