Scaling up certification

solutions throughout
the landscape
Richard Laity
Projects & Development
PEFC International

Moving from Stand-level to Landscape

level: across multiple dimensions

PLACES

PEOPLE

PRODUCTS
& SERVICES

Importance of empowering smallholders

Featured Projects:
Smallholders & sustaining
livelihoods
Vietnam: working to strengthen smallholder
cooperatives and to strengthen links to the
market
Impacts:
Increasing farmer capacity to implement
sustainable forest practices
build stronger & profitable business models and
affordable group certification
Enabling smallholders to influence national
policy developments

Promoting Sustainable Landscapes

Thailand: working with partners to pilot test and
develop suitable requirements for certification of
trees outside forest
Impacts:
Promote agroforestry and sustainable management
throughout the landscape
Enhance household income and market access for
farmers with small scale tree cultivation

Types of Group Certification

Regional
certification
Group
certification

Characteristics: Regional Certification

Established by geographical boundaries and usually coincident

with political divisions
Can take advantage of administrative infrastructure, bridge public
& private commitments and establishes large framework for scaleup
Way to decrease certification costs for forest ownersand is often
complimented with regional support to administer the certificate

Characteristics: Group Certification

Group shape or geographical limits not defined a priori by scheme
Individual forest owners, managers, forest associationsjoin
freely
Specially developed for small forest owners
Main goal: decrease certification costs by sharing them with other
forest owners
One manager or managing entity identified on behalf of the group

Inclusive approaches:
Step-wise group DDS Certified
Group
management
FM Certificate

Controlled Source
Due Dillegence System

FM Group 1
Assessment

Member 1
Member N

CS DS 1
Member 1
Member N

What are the best models to this?

CB checks the group system

Announces
Group Entity
Elaborates
Defines and implements

Group Manager

Procedures
Training Plan

Supports members
Group Members
Evaluates & Monitors

Documents

Certification
Body (CB)

Records

CB annualy
audits risk
based sample of
group members
& records

Thank you!
Richard.laity@pefc.org