Independent evaluation of the EU-Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan, through a consortium of TEREA, S-FOR-S and Topperspective (S-FOR-S delivering 4 out of 7 consultants), contracted through the European Forest Institute (EFI).
Scope: 12 years of FLEGT implementation (2003 -2014), covering all 7 FLEGT areas in VPA countries, non-VPA producer countries, consumer countries and EU Member States.
Keywords: forest governance, illegal logging and trade, poverty alleviation, support to producer countries, promoting trade in legal timber through VPAs, TLAS, EUTR, timber public procurement policies, private sector initiatives, financing and investment, legislative instruments, conflict timber.
Including field missions to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cameroon, China, Colombia, France, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Italy, Ivory Coast, the Netherlands, Romania, the UK and Vietnam, as well as studies on Australia, Canada, Chile, Guyana, Honduras, India, Liberia, PNG, Russia and the USA and delivery of the final main report in English, French and Spanish.