Resources

Related documents

• VERIFOR Briefing Paper 1 - Designing Verification Systems for the Timber Trade: Learning from International Processes (PDF, 621kb)

To identify principles of good verification practice and institutional arrangements for their implementation, the VERIFOR project carried out a review of existing verification systems in the forest sector and in other sectors. More on the outcomes of these case studies can be found in the Key Principles section.

Case studies from the forest sector

1. Ghana
2. British Columbia (Canada)
3. Ecuador
4. Cambodia
5. Brazil
6. Costa Rica
7. The Philippines
8. Malaysia
9. Indonesia
10. Nepal
11. Cameroon

Comparative Case Studies

Each of these case studies from outside the forest sector is introduced by the VERIFOR Project Director, David Brown, who sets the scene and discusses the lessons which can be learned.

1. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for Rough Diamonds
2. Nuclear Safeguards
3. CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species)
4. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
5. Food Safety Standards and the Meat Industry
6. Election monitoring
7. Ombudsmen, People's Defenders and Mediators: Independence and administrative justice in state transformation