For more information contact Francesca Iannini on f.iannini@odi.org.uk

Case studies (downloads only - for full details see Country and Sector Case Studies page)

• Ghana's Experience in Timber Verification System Design (full | summary)
• Verification in the Forest Sector of British Columbia, Canada (full | summary)
• The Ecuadorian Outsourced National Forest Control System (full | summary | French version )
• The Experience of Indpendent Forest Monitoring in Cambodia (full | summary | French version )
• Giants don't Leap: Verification in Brazil's Process towards Sustainable Forestry (full | summary | French version)
• The Costa Rican National Forest Control System (full | summary)
• Verification in the Forest Sector in the Philippines (full | summary | French version )
• Systems for Verification of Legality in Malaysia (full | summary)
• Systems for Verification of Legality in the Indonesian Forest Sector (summary)
• Forest Products Verification in Nepal and the work of the Commission to Investigate the Abuse of Authority (full | summary)
• Verification in the Forest Sector in Cameroon (full | summary | French version )
• The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for Rough Diamonds
• An Overview of the Evolution, Operation and Status of Nuclear Safeguards
• The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
• The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Verification for Food Safety: the case of the Meat Industry
• The experience of election observers: lessons for the process of timber verification
• Ombudsmen, People's Defenders and Mediators: independence and administrative justice in state transformation

Briefing Papers

1. Designing Verification Systems for the Timber Trade: Learning from International Processes
2. On Independence in Verification Work
3. Developmental Impacts of Verification Systems in the Forest Sector
4. Independent monitoring of the FLEGT Timber Legality Assurance System: Thinking Outside the Box
5. Ownership in relation to the Design of Verification Systems
6. Convergence between Certification and Verification in the drive to Legality Assurance: assessing the pros and cons
7. New Technologies in support of Improved Forest Governance: factors influencing success
8. Multi-stakeholder processes: Lessons for the process of timber verification

VERIFOR Options

1. Strategies for Independent Monitoring

VERIFOR Information Notes

1. Recent international trade patterns in timber products for the Verifor case study countries