Year of publication 2010

The aim of this manual is to strengthen civil society's technical capacity to provide independent monitoring of forest law enforcement and governance (IM-FLEG). It may also help other actors, such as government officials, improvement their infraction detection techniques. The target readers of this manual are civil society organizations working or about to work in partnership with an international IM organisation. REM is working in close cooperation with organisations (and/or individuals) from civil society to develop and implement IM projects. Such long-term cooperation will enable these organisations to gain IM experience and to develop proposals that include and adapt the approach to their particular circumstances. This manual may also be of use to organisations wishing to conduct EM; some specific aspects of such an approach are not, however, considered here, such as ways of accessing information or advocacy actions. This manual does not offer a complete and exhaustive methodology, nor does it list all of the resources necessary for successfully implementing an IM programme. The skills provided in this manual can also be applied to a wide range of other monitoring activities, in other natural resource extraction sectors in particular. Readers are therefore encouraged to adapt the practices given in this manual to the specific circumstances of their particular regions.