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  • With new government in place, Liberia meets EU to review VPA implementation

    by EU FLEGT Facility, 16 July 2018
    The Joint Implementation Committee overseeing the EU-Liberia Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) on forest law enforcement, governance and trade has met for the first time since Liberia’s new government — including new Forestry Development Authority (FDA) Managing Director C. Mike Doryen — took office earlier this year.

  • FLEGT Independent Market Monitor publishes first quarterly newsletter

    by FLEGT.org, 08 January 2018
    The FLEGT Independent Market Monitor (IMM) has published the first edition of its quarterly newsletter, featuring updates on the IMM project, market and policy news, and interviews with key FLEGT actors.

  • Lessons and inspiration from Indonesia’s FLEGT experience

    by Mike Jeffree, 05 October 2017
    Indonesia was not the only one to celebrate its FLEGT licensing launch last year. Other tropical timber exporters engaged in the FLEGT VPA process en route to licensing welcomed the news too. They see Indonesia’s success not just as inspirational, but providing lessons from which they can learn. Mike Jeffree reports

  • VPAs give communities a confident voice

    by Michael Jeffree, 01 September 2017
    FLEGT VPAs are not just about delivering legal timber to the EU, but ensuring greater stakeholder participation in timber sector decision-making in supplier countries to the benefit of ordinary people. Mike Jeffree reports on progress in Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia, Liberia and Vietnam.

  • Civil society sharing lessons on participation and forest governance

    by EU FLEGT Facility, 07 April 2017
    When civil society organisations in Indonesia began proposing ways to end illegal logging, they knew they had a mountain to climb. In 2002, some 80 percent of logging there was illegally. Corruption and conflict were widespread. Trust was lacking.

  • FLEGT boosts civil society self-help

    by Mike Jeffree, 28 March 2017
    After playing a key role in implementing their country’s FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement with the EU, Indonesian civil society groups are sharing experiences with counterparts in other countries engaged in the initiative.

  • Ghana transformed and on target for licensing

    by ETTF, 15 September 2016
    Ghana’s confidence in its FLEGT VPA process is underlined by its eagerness to open it to scrutiny. Mike Jeffree reports

  • EUTR enforcers claim growing competence

    by ETTF, 15 September 2016
    Latest evidence shows EUTR Competent Authorities increasingly strengthening enforcement capacity EU-wide, creating a more effective barrier to illegal wood and helping prepare the ground for successful impact of FLEGT-licensed timber. Mike Jeffree reports

  • The VPA voyage is validated

    by ETTF, 15 September 2016
    The launch of Indonesian FLEGT licensing may not be a ‘magic bullet’ against illegal timber, but deserves recognition as a key step in the right direction, say participants in the initiative. Mike Jeffree reports