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Forest Stewardship Council
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Evaluating the impact of voluntary certification -
From evaluators’ and stakeholders’ perspective.
The role of ISEAL & the example of FSC.
Kristin Komives, M&E Manager ISEALMarion Karmann, M&E Manager FSC
1st EEEN Forum, 9.-10. Feb. 2012, Leuven, Belgium
ISEAL Alliance Monitoring & Evaluation Programs
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What is the ISEAL Alliance?
Global hub for sustainability standards....defining credibility and supporting systems to scale up impact
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› Why? › WHY› > Increasing demand from
companies, governments, and NGOs to show impacts
› > Learning and improvement, substantiated claims, transparency, and multi-stakeholder involvement… as elements of credibility
› What? › WHAT› > Theory of change› > Indicators and on-going monitoring› > Impact and outcome evaluations› > Stakeholder input into M&E system› >Internal dissemination and learning› > Public reporting of results› > No unsubstantiated claims
ISEAL’s Impacts Code: evaluation policy for our membership
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ISEAL’s collective work on impacts› > Poverty reduction impacts of certification› > Common indicators› > Research agenda› > Working towards joint impact evaluation
›> In development… impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem integrity
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150 mio hectares, run by 1.100 forest companies, in 87 countries:
different sizes, types of ownership, management objectives, technologies, knowledge, laws, rights,..
Membership based, balanced, participatory decision / consent making: 900 orgs. & indivuals, three chambers (econ., ecol., soc.) North & South each.
Consultative processes in forest certification.
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FSC was established to promote:• environmentally appropriate,• socially beneficial, and • economically viable
…management of the world's forests.
Forestry: intervening in ecosystems, affecting stakeholders, raising expectations.
FSC: Reduction of negative impacts.
Reality check!
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Reality checks - practitioners:Foresters: Monitoring, Soc. & Env. Impact
assessments, adaptation of management plans,Auditors: evidence for adherence to FSC Standards,
annually, spot audits, raising CARs, public reporting, Stakeholder consultations, conflict res. mechanism, ASI: auditing auditors’ performance, FSC: consult for standard revision processes.
Reality checks – researchers:Individual research: case studies, ….Joint projects: e.g. WWF, ESA/NASA, CIFOR, CIRAD,
GEF, Birdlife/SLU, Forest People Program, ISEAL, ..
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Thank you!
Kristin Komives, [email protected]
Marion Karmann, [email protected]
N.b.: Evaluators are always welcome!
1st EEEN Forum, 9.-10. Feb. 2012, Leuven, Belgium
ISEAL Alliance Monitoring & Evaluation Programs