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An overview of IM FLEG implementation in the Congo Bassin
Serge Christian MOUKOURI FLAG
Yaoundé, Cameroon
Presentation key points
• An insight about FLAG • What is Independent Monitoring? • How does it work? • What are its main results? • Challenges and opportunities • How FLAG is acting?
An insight about FLAG
• Cameroon based CSO with regional scope of intervention founded in 2012 by a group of experts in IM
• Our Vision : African society where good governance
principles are applied to forestry resources valorization, so that countries have means to assure their sustainability and their social, economic and ecological development.
• Our Mission: o Provide technical support to CSOs
involved in independent monitoring implementation ;
o Analyze and disseminate information related to compliance and enforcement of laws governing the forest sector with a regional perspective.
Independent Monitoring?
• a constructive approach involving governments, the international donor community, the private sector and civil society.
• a practical tool supporting work towards curbing illegal and unjust exploitation of natural resources.
• an effective tool to support governments committed to clean up a sector and acknowledged problems of corruption
• 2 main types: Mandated Independent
Monitoring: used already in several countries before VPAs were negotiated (formal)
Local or international CSO led : Self-mandated Independent Monitoring also called External Independent Monitoring
How does it work?
AGREEMENT ON SPECIFIC ToR
MOU WITH GOVERNMENT REP
ISSUANCE OF MISSION ORDER (permanent or periodic)
FIELD MISSIONS (independent or joint)
REPORTS WRITING
READING COMMITTEE
PUBLICATION
Some results of IM
• Identification of different aspects of illegal logging activities:
Logs laundering Cutting above authorised
volume Cutting out of boundary Tax evasion Violation of communities
right
• Diagnostic of problems affecting forest law enforcement, forestry control and better compliance to existing laws
• Provide reliable information on forest sector
• Capacity building of national CSO and law enforcement officials on monitoring of forest sector
Challenges and opportunities
Challenges • Delay in publication and
government action or reaction • Withdrawal of international
NGO from the direct implementation
• Increasing national concern on illegal forest activities
• How to insure credibility of IM undertaken by host country civil society?
• Funding: suitable mechanism?
opportunities Potential information
source • VPA - LAS • EUTR • Lacey act • AILPB Because of credibility of
published information due to Access to sites and documents Observe agents In situ Direct formal exchanges with
government
An example of how informations from Independent Monitoring have
been used
• Even if well address at national level, IM information can also be used at international level to raise awareness
• Case of TIL log exportation in violation of log export ban by falsifying logs marks
• Highlighting the flaws of due diligence mechanism : The evidence contained in reports published by the FLEG were used by journalists to show that the buyer did not question the legality of the products that he introduced on the European market via France
Panorama Jungle Outlaws The Chainsaw Trail BBC documentary ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9pL9meZNYw Prime time broadcast in UK
How is FLAG acting?
In situ Capacities building
Information management
Solid partnership or
networking
Link with international initiatives to curb illegal
logging