Local learnings and global transformation

• Local Learnings and Global Transformation – Presentation 
• A Proposal for Risk-Based Approaches to FSC’s National Forestry Stewardship Standards Development and Auditing Discussion paper
• Key Details of the Appalachian Woodlands Alliance Smallholder Access Program
• The application of a risk-assessment approach to FSC certification in South Africa

Room: SPB 2

How do we improve the effectiveness of the FSC normative framework and related processes so that we can meet our overall objective of certifying 20 per cent of the world’s forest-products trade by 2020?

A team of experts at FSC is developing tools that incorporate principles of risk management to identify opportunities to make the normative framework more:

·      stable

·      responsive

·      simple

·      predictable

·      cost-effective and outcome-oriented.

During the first half of 2017, leading up to the 2017 General Assembly, one sub-team is taking a ‘step back’ to observe from a macro or system-wide perspective, while another sub-team is focusing on lessons learned from a micro or on-the-ground perspective.

In this session you will hear proposals made about forest management by our standard development groups and other stakeholders on the ground – i.e. the micro perspective.