Enabling Landscapes: INTERHOLCO's Sustainability Report 2017
Interholco presents its first stand-alone Sustainability Report simultaneously in Baar, Switzerland and in Vancouver, Canada, where the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) General Assembly 2017 has just been kicked off. Interholco is an active participant at this General Assembly. To find out more: https://interholco.com/images/pdfs/Enabling-Landscapes-INTERHOLCO-Sustainability-Report-2017-.pdf
Interholco presents its first stand-alone Sustainability Report simultaneously in Baar, Switzerland and in Vancouver, Canada, where the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) General Assembly 2017 has just been kicked off. Interholco is an active participant at this General Assembly.
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Inclusion and human rights: the IFO Social Team<br />
Led by Mr. Eric Mvouyou, the IFO<br />
Social Team provides a critical<br />
interface between the company<br />
management and its operations and<br />
the needs and expectations of the<br />
local and indigenous communities. In<br />
the Social Team, Mr. Eric Mvouyou<br />
works together with Ms. Gelvie<br />
Nguimbi, Mr. Aubin Lobila and Mr.<br />
Timothée Epoutangongo , who is<br />
himself from an indigenous<br />
community.<br />
In 2016 alone, our Social Team held<br />
over 300 meetings, to maintain an<br />
open dialogue with communities and<br />
listen to their needs and<br />
expectations. To effectively<br />
implement the principle of Free, Prior<br />
and Informed Consent (FPIC), we hired<br />
Mr. Roch Nzobo, director of human<br />
rights NGO 'Cercle des droits de<br />
l'homme et de développement'<br />
(CDHD). He identifies and is notified of<br />
social issues in the villages and<br />
ensures comprehensive and<br />
consistent implementation of the FPIC<br />
requirements, keeping communities<br />
informed, hearing their concerns,<br />
discussing and agreeing on joint<br />
actions, and ensuring that<br />
communities know about, and<br />
exercise, their right to FPIC.<br />
Through our Social Team, we work<br />
with local communities and include<br />
Indigenous Peoples, on participatory<br />
cartography with a view to identifying<br />
forest resources (e.g. trees, medicinal<br />
plants, special sites, water courses,<br />
etc.) which need to be protected from<br />
harvesting to allow food and natural<br />
remedy production, cultural and/or<br />
religious ceremonies, etc.<br />
Benefits are shared with the local<br />
communities and Indigenous Peoples<br />
through a local development fund,<br />
which independently supports<br />
community-projects. From 2014 to<br />
2016, material was provided for<br />
houses, agriculture and livestock<br />
projects were initiated, drinking water<br />
wells, school and clinics were<br />
constructed, etc.<br />
The fund provides the local<br />
communities and indigenous peoples<br />
with key resources, as part of a<br />
benefit sharing process and FPIC.<br />
In addition, our Social Team not only<br />
hears, collects and documents<br />
grievances, but collaborates with the<br />
local people and communities to<br />
prevent and/or resolve them.<br />
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