{"id":1207,"date":"2021-07-30T08:28:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T08:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2021-07-30T08:45:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T08:45:41","slug":"civil-society-actors-learn-new-tool-for-concession-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/2021\/07\/30\/civil-society-actors-learn-new-tool-for-concession-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Society Actors Learn New Tool for Concession Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Banner Image: Ariel view of a portion of the Palm Bay Estate of Equatorial Palm Oil\u2019s (EPO) covering 6,400 hectares of land in Jogbahn Clan in District No.4, Grand Bassa County. The DayLight\/James Harding Giahyue <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By James Harding Giahyue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MONROVIA \u2013 Campaigners from civil society organizations in Liberia on Thursday received training on the Accountability Framework initiative (AFi), a new tool for advocacy in the agriculture and forestry sectors.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AFi was introduced in 2019 by a host of international nongovernmental organizations, including Proforest<\/a>, Rainforest Alliance<\/a> and the Meridian Institute<\/a>. Combining international and local laws, policies, principles and best practices, it provides a standard for civil society\u2019s advocacy for agriculture and forest-related companies to produce sustainably. It aims to reduce private sector-related deforestation and foster strict adherence to respect for human rights and secure benefit for local communities where these firms operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campaigners at the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI)\u2014which organized the one-day training workshop alongside Proforest Ghana\u2014said it will help land and forest rights groups monitor companies and ensure they comply with social, environmental and economic standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is very important to us as civil society organizations,\u201d said James Otto, who heads SDI\u2019s community rights and corporate governance program, told participants at the opening of the daylong event. \u201cThis is going to be a build-on training so that the framework is actually implemented in Liberia.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is our opportunity in Liberia to understand what [AFi] is and see the linkages with our own efforts that we are making already, and see who we are going to take it and apply it in Liberia,\u201d said Silas Siakor, one of the facilitators of the event<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siakor said coronavirus posed some challenges to the new initiative as it was established in the same year of the pandemic but momentum for the tool has started to take off. \u201cThe idea is really to drive stakeholders to take the concept and work with it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n

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