Training FSC^® Forest Management

Program

Training duration – FSC^® Forest Management

The training is composed by 40 hours over two weeks (half day sessions only) for remote sessions including 3 hours of Generic FSC® training.

TOPICS – FSC® Forest Management

Chapters of the FM course are:

1. Overview of general requirements for FM application
2. The FSC Principles and Criteria
3. National and interim national standards and the role of the international generic indicators
4. FSC’s stakeholder consultation process and its application
5. The FM certification process and certification decision making
6. Group certification for forest management
7. Certification of small and low-intensity managed forest
8. Social requirements within certification
9. Legal and customary rights of Indigenous peoples, as addressed in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, national laws, and Indigenous laws
10. Evaluation of high conservation values
11. CW evaluation and certification
12. FSC’s pesticides policy and is implementation
13. Non-timber forest products
14. Forest certification for ecosystem services
15. FM certification report writing