Accompanying of those forest companies wishing to valorize their efforts towards sustainable management of their operations once they have gone beyond what is required by legislation: orientation towards standard choice (OLB, FSC...), specifications, pre-audits...

Forest concession management planning is a requirement by law in all Congo Basin countries. However, certain forestry companies have decided to push their efforts in sustainable management beyond the minimum level stipulated by law through the implementation of initiatives such as the adoption of Reduced Impact Logging (RIL) techniques, micro-projects in favour of local populations, or the establishment of partnerships with NGOs in the fight against poaching.

Forest certification is an essential tool for those companies wishing to valorize their products and system of management in the eyes of consumers and the public in general, and to recognise the extra effort taken towards achieving sustainability.  

ONFI accompanies enterprises in their certification efforts: orientation towards a label (OLB, FSC, PAFC...), initial diagnostic, definition of steps for improvement and certification specifications, training of company personnel.

Moreover, certain members of ONFI carry out forest management auditing missions (FSC or other) for the account of verifying organisations. Therefore, ONFI benefits from a real visibility of the challenges facing forest certification. Of course ONFI does not audit those companies with which it works directly.

Finally, ONFI is implicated in the implementation of the European Union's FLEGT process (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) in Central Africa. The FLEGT is destined to fight against illegal logging, notably through the establishing of Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPA) between tropical timber producing countries and the UE.

A few of our clients and partners :
The International Technical Tropical Timber Association (ATIBT), Ministries of Agriculture and Foreign Affairs, French Development Agency, BVQI-Eurocertifor, SGS, Forestry companies (Wijma-Cameroon, CIB, SBL, Leroy-Gabon, Pallisco…)