About FSC
The Forest Stewardship
Council™ A.C. (FSC™) was established in 1993, as a follow-up to the United
Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Earth Summit at Rio de
Janeiro, 1992) with the mission to promote environmentally appropriate,
socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world’s forests.
FSC is an international
organization that provides a system for voluntary accreditation and independent
third-party certification. This system allows certificate holders to market
their products and services as the result of environmentally appropriate,
socially beneficial and economically viable forest management. The FSC also
sets standards for the development and approval of FSC Stewardship Standards
which are based on the FSC Principles and Criteria. In addition, FSC sets
standards for the accreditation of conformity assessment bodies (also known as
certification bodies) that certify compliance with FSC’s standards.
Based on these standards,
FSC provides a system for certification for organizations seeking to market
their products as FSC certified.
Innovative Approaches
While working on the NFSS, the
Tanzanian SDG has taken into consideration on FSC mission built on: Environmentally
appropriate forest management that ensures that the production of timber,
non-timber products and ecosystem
services maintains the forest’s biodiversity, productivity, and
ecological processes. Socially beneficial forest management helps both
local people and society at large to enjoy long term benefits and also provides
strong incentives to local people to sustain the forest resources and adhere to
long-term management plans. Economically
viable forest management means that forest operations are structured and
managed so as to be sufficiently profitable, without generating financial
profit at the expense of the forest resource, the ecosystem, or affected communities.
Stakeholder Consultation on Tanzania
National Forest Stewardship Standards (NFSS)
Tanzanian
stakeholders, in May 2015, have agreed to establish National Standard
Developement Group (SDG) to work on developing National Forest Stewardship
Standards (NFSS) based on FSC International Generic Indicators (IGIs). To date,
national stakeholders have managed to produce draft National FSC Standards with
facilitation of the National Standards Development Group (SDG). The draft
FSC standards have adopted and adapted the new IGIs taking on board the revised
P&C as indicated in the version 5 of the FSC-STD-01-004 V1 EN FSC
International Generic Indicators (IGIs).
According to FSC procedures, (FSC-60-006) a website (http://www.tafmp.co.tz ) has been set up as open source
for interested parties and stakeholders who can comment upon and discuss the
proposed draft standards. It is on this basis that Tanzania SDG, takes this opportunity to inform that the public
consultation of the first NFSS draft open to all stakeholders. The standards are available on request.
Please contact the SDG Cordinator: Isaac Malugu. Email: imalugu@wwftz.org; Skype ID: isaacmalugu; Mobile
+255 784 775877
Public Stakeholders Consultations
The following public consultation meetings are planned on the
following dates in the following regions.
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Zonal
and National Workshop
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Venue
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When
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Participants
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NFSS Zonal workshops
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Lindi
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8th February 2016
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Southern zone: Mtwara, Lindi and
Ruvuma and Coast regions
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Iringa
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16th February 2016
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Southern highlands zone : Mbeya,
Iringa and Morogoro regions
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Tanga
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19th February 2016
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Northern zone: Tanga, Arusha,
Kilimanjaro and Manyara regions
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NFSS National workshop
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Dar es Salaam
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29th February
2016
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Selected national stakeholders
from various zones will be invited.
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Please confirm your availability to contact given above.
