Fao-Eu Flegt Programme Achievements Achievements

©FAO/MARC VANDENHAUTE VANDENHAUTE ©FAO/MARC ABOUT FLEGT ABOUT The FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, FAO-EU FLEGT Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme works to help implement the European Union’s FLEGT Action PROGRAMME Plan to combat illegal logging and associated trade. The Programme provides technical and financial support to governments, civil society and private sector organizations to FOREST LAW enact locally-defined solutions to improve forest governance and create an enabling ENFORCEMENT, environment for legal timber production. The EU FLEGT Action Plan works to: GOVERNANCE  increase demand for legal timber by preventing illegal timber imports into the European Union; AND TRADE  improve the supply of legal timber by channelling financial and technical support to countries that want to address illegal logging and weak forest PHASE III governance, and increase (or improve) responsible forest management. BENEFITS OF LEGAL TIMBER FAO-EU FLEGT PROGRAMME ACHIEVEMENTS ACHIEVEMENTS

BENEFITS The production of legal timber contributes to numerous social, economic and In the Congo Basin (Cameroon, Democratic environmental benefits. Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic), the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme has Improved governance and successfully supported independent forest forest management. A FLEGT monitoring by civil society organizations with the license ensures legality in the goal of producing reliable information on forest forest sector from point of infractions in timber consuming countries. This harvest to point of export and has led to many cases of official investigations and contributes to sustainable forest revisions to legal frameworks. management. Honduras is pursuing a unique approach in Enhanced economic developing a national timber-tracking and control opportunities. A legal system as required by its Voluntary Partnership framework allows small- and Agreement (VPA) with FAO-EU FLEGT support. medium-sized enterprises This will create a cost-effective electronic system to access the global trade in that increases confidence and transparency in the tropical timber — worth USD country’s forest sector. 31.1 billion in 2016. Viet Nam imports timber from 80 countries. Increased trade benefits. The FAO-EU FLEGT Programme is supporting Certified legal timber worth the private sector in developing a due diligence more than EUR 1 billion was system to ensure the legality of imported timber in shipped from Indonesia to the accordance with the country’s VPA, to strengthen European Union in the first year legal supply chains. of its FLEGT licensing. Colombia is demonstrating how various actors Secured rights for local within public, private and civil society can work communities. As suppliers of together to strengthen legality in the country’s legal timber, the rights of local forestry sector. With support from the FAO-EU communities are strengthened FLEGT Programme, space for dialogue has been and clarified. created at the national and local levels to advance legal markets.

FAO SUPPORT FOR LEGAL TIMBER PRODUCTION  fostering multi-stakeholder processes SUPPORT to promote inclusive decision making and FAO supports countries in improving forest representation of women, youth and minorities; governance by:  achieving country transparency commitments  revising policy and legal frameworks for legal and strengthening the role of civil society; timber production and trade;  supporting private sector stakeholders to  establishing national timber traceability and participate in legal timber production and control systems; consumption. ©FAO/MARC VANDENHAUTE VANDENHAUTE ©FAO/MARC

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