The FAO-EU FLEGT Programme is now accepting concept notes from government institutions, civil society, indigenous and tribal peoples, and private sector organizations in countries engaged in Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) with the European Union. Grants up to USD 110 000 [...]

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is stepping up support for the legal timber trade in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic with the official launch of two new projects that will strengthen the roles of civil [...]

27 June 2017, Accra, Ghana - Independent forest monitoring by civil society can improve transparency and help strengthen checks on illegality in the forest sector in Africa, an international conference heard last month in Accra.Over 70 experts from ten countries [...]

More than 200 representatives from timber producer and consumer countries, private sector and civil society, indigenous communities, as well as from the European Union (EU) Member States and Delegates, the European Commission and international organizations attended a conference organized by [...]

The Government of Myanmar has committed to improving the country’s timber legality assurance system following the release of a report that analyzed the “gaps” in the system in the context of internationally recognized principles, requirements and best practices. The Myanmar Forest [...]

A broad coalition of Filipino stakeholders is acting to improve forest law enforcement, governance and trade (FLEGT) in the Philippines with support from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations’ FAO-EU FLEGT Programme. At its inaugural meeting, [...]

A total of 31 Colombian enterprises have benefited from the project developed between the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme and FEDEMADERAS for incorporating processes for legality verification and gender equity. In the last eight months, 31 Colombian timber processing and end-product enterprises have [...]

Experts meeting in Rome this week are discussing timber import regulations and practical methods of ensuring that wood and wood products entering the European Union, the United States and Australia are from legal production. The Timber Regulation Enforcement Exchange (TREE) meeting, [...]

The country will establish its road map up to the year 2020 in order to boost forest governance and income generation on the basis of the sustainable use of more than 3.7 million hectares of forest. Representatives of Guatemala’s forest sector will [...]

The FAO Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme will now be known as the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme to reflect the ongoing support of the European Union (EU) to the programme together with the governments of Sweden and the [...]