Topic: Independent Forest Monitoring (IFM) / Observation Indépendante des Forêts (OIF) / Supervisión Independiente de Bosques
Independent forest monitoring (IFM) is a tool for assessing and strengthening legal compliance in the forest sector internationally. By complementing official forest law enforcement activities with the objectivity and public credibility of an independent third party, IFM can improve transparency in the short term while contributing to the development of a sound legislative and regulatory framework for responsible forest management[citation needed].
Transparency was emphasized as a key element in reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the Conference of the Parties (COP-15) in Copenhagen in December 2009 in its decisions on methodological guidance for forest monitoring systems
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VPA Update – Vietnam
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Benefits of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement: A Liberian civil society perspective
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A civil society counter-brief on the Ghana-EU VPA (Spanish)
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Forest Trends briefing: Honduras VPA (Spanish)
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Civil society counter-brief on the Cameroon-EU VPA (Spanish)
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Civil society counter-brief on the Congo Brazzaville-EU VPA (Spanish)
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Civil society counter-brief on the Central African Republic-EU VPA
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Civil society declaration on participation in Cameroon’s VPA process
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Civil society counter-brief on the Congo Brazzaville-EU VPA
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Update on Cameroon’s VPA process from GTZ and REM
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Feasibility study for independent forest monitoring in DR Congo (summary)
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