The PathFinder

The Pathfinder is a series of instruments designed to support and empower multistakeholder working groups in developing forest certification standards. The aim is to bring together the expertise of those working in this field and create a set of practical guidelines which can be used mainly by national/regional forest certification standards setting groups. (2003)

The project was coordinated by Pi  for the WWF and IKEA Co-operation on Forest Projects.

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GTZ
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit. Research on the institutional requirements for forest-certification. (2000) Co-organized (along with FAO and ITTO) the "Building confidence among forest certification schemes" conference in Rome. (2001) Co-organized and launched the Ethical Certification and Labelling Authentication Project (ECLAP), an international multistakeholder initiative on the development of ethical standards. (On going)

WWF
Advice given to the WWF Network on certification and labelling and community forest management. (1994-on going)

Capacity Building

FSC Workshops on standardization in Cameroon, Madagascar and Columbia. (1997-2004)


DFID

Field Research on enhancing socio-economic and environmental benefits of carbon sequestration for disadvantaged local communities in Uganda. (2003)


ITTO
International Tropical Timber Organization. Technical advice for the Diagnostic Mission requested by the government of the Philippenes to identify and prioritize the constraints to achieving sustainable forest management (SFM), and to identify actions that both the government and the ITTO might take to accelerate progress towards SFM). (2003)

QACC
Questionnaire for Accessing the Comprehensiveness of Certification schemes/systems. Tool produced for the WB/WWF Alliance for evaluating forest certification initiatives. (2003)

FSC
Founding member. Advice on trade and standardization issues, and institutional settings. Forest Stewardship Council. Led to the development of a social strategy and internalization of local community issues in FSC's work. (2001)

Post-graduate courses
Courses on forest certification given at the University of Lausanne (EPFL) (2000) and Madrid (CENEAM) in Spain. (1999)

Forest-related projects

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last modified on 22/8/06