TFF’s Certification Support Program receives ITTO funding
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Members of the PT Suka Jaya Makmur certification team with TFF staff. |
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In mid-2009 Tropical Forest Foundation signed an agreement with the ITTO, launching a major initiative to support the forest concession of PT Suka Jaya Makmur (SJM) to achieve certification under the FSC scheme.
Funding support is being provided by the ITTO for this very focused initiative under an ITTO Civil Society-Private Sector Partnership Program for sustainable forest management and certification. The TFF-SJM proposal was selected out of a global ITTO solicitation for proposals.
SJM is a 171,340 ha concession belonging to the Alas Kusuma Group of companies. SJM becomes the second concession under this corporate ownership to pursue the goal of FSC certification after the successful certification by SmartWood of PT Sari Bumi Kusuma in 2007.
ITTO will fund a variety of certification related activities including legality audit, chain-of-custody, control wood risk assessment, RIL training and audit, social training, HCV related activities and FSC scoping.
