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Responsible Timber Sourcing for Sustainable Rebuilding in Haiti

This guide emphasizes the importance of sourcing timber responsibly to support Haiti's rebuilding efforts while minimizing environmental harm. Key strategies include utilizing recycled or reclaimed materials, involving local processing industries, and ensuring timber comes from legal and certified sources. It's crucial to maintain supply chain traceability, avoid exacerbating existing ecological pressures, and manage risks effectively. By prioritizing sustainable practices, we can aid community recovery without further degrading Haiti's natural resources.

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Responsible Timber Sourcing for Sustainable Rebuilding in Haiti

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  1. Timber for Haiti • Minimize the negative and maximize the positive. • Avoid illegal and unwanted sources • Maximize recycled/reclaimed and credibly certified sources Rebuilding without doing NO MORE HARM

  2. Do no more harm • Use responsibly sourced or recycled materials where possible and rebuild local industries • Avoid exacerbating existing pressure on local natural resources (eg avoid timber supply from stressed forest systems – especially important considering historical deforestation in Haiti) • Involve local processing industries (sawmills) in customizing, treatment and distribution of materials • Avoid creating new or expanding existing processing industries beyond the long-term capacity for the relevant natural resource to supply them

  3. What do I ask? • Is the source legal? • How did it get here? • Supply chain traceability? • Supply chain complexity? • What is the environmental status? • Certified/recycled • In-progress to certification • Known licensed • Known • Unwanted • Unknown

  4. Risk Management • 3rd party audited? • High risk vs low risk? • Traceability • Country of origin • Species • Is the company in a “stepwise approach” program (GFTN, SmartStep, TFT)?

  5. Hierarchy of Responsible Timber Sourcing • FSC certified/recycled or reclaimed material • Licensed known source (3rd party certified) • Known source

  6. Maximize • Credibly certified • Forest source certified by independent 3rd party as being well-managed under a credible certification scheme • Verification: • -Valid forest management (FM) certificate • -Valid chain of custody (CoC) certificate • Progressing towards credible certification • A known licensed forest source participating in a time-bound process of progressing toward credible certification. • -GFTN participants, The Forest Trust, SmartWood’sSmartStep

  7. Known licensed and known • If FSC certified timber is unavailable, source from known licensed and known sources • Known licensed source • Basic legality check: • Supply chain mapped to known forest source • Legal right to harvest/charges and fees paid/timber legally traded • Independent 3rd party verification • Each stage has verified Chain of Custody controls • Known source • Traceable back to forest source • Low risk: district level • High risk: forest management unit (FMU)

  8. Eliminate • Unknown • Unwanted sources • Illegally harvested or traded wood • Conflict timber • Timber in violation of traditional/ civil rights • Conversion • Uncertified High Conservation Value Forests • GMOs

  9. Committing to responsible purchasing • Gain support and commitment from senior management within the program • Develop policies on souring • Communicate and train staff on policies • Establish a monitoring and traceability system • Implement • Review and improve

  10. Resources • GFTN Tools and Guides • http://gftn.panda.org/ • http://sourcing.gftn.panda.org • WWF – Timber for Aceh • http://www.wwf.org.au/articles/feature28/ • Chatham House • http://www.illegal-logging.info/ • CITES • http://www.cites.org/ • FSC • http://www.fsc.org • Rainforest Alliance • http://www.rainforest-alliance.orgT • Transparency International • http://transparency.org • TRAFFIC • http://www.traffic.org/timber-trade/

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