An introduction to aligning your operations with the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
In summer 2022, the Interlaken Group is releasing guidance for companies and investors to incorporate and respond to community-sourced data on the social and environmental impacts of supply chains and land investments. When local communities are positioned to monitor and verify the activities of companies, companies have a new data set to monitor and validate the sustainability of their supply chains and comply with human rights due diligence and emerging deforestation regulations.
On November 5, 2019 the Interlaken Group supported a dialogue between leaders from companies and development partners active in Laos’ forestry sector, including from Stora Enso, Burapha, New Forests, Mekong Timber Plantations, CDE, ACIAR, RECOFTC, VFI, MRLG, GIZ, FAO, IFC and the World Bank. This brief presents the findings of that discussion and the opportunities for action identified by the group. It might be utilized as guidance to help coordinate workplans, strategies, and messaging among the stakeholders supporting sustainable plantation forestry in Laos.
A matrix to measure the impact of the Interlaken Group as a mechanism to facilitate private sector action to promote responsible investment that secures community land rights.
A system which helps companies and investors in emerging and frontier markets assess tenure risk at project, supply chain or portfolio level by analyzing geospatial data about social, environmental and political issues
The Interlaken Group’s vision and commitment to work with all parties—including companies, governments, investors, international development institutions, Indigenous Peoples, communities, and civil society—to scale-up and implement global efforts to secure collective land rights on the ground
This document provides an empirical picture of the causes and effects of tenure-related disputes between private sector actors and local peoples across Southeast Asia.
This guidance provides operational guidance for companies confronting legacy land issues
This synthesis of findings from an investigation of tenure risk in East, West, and Southern Africa shows that a majority of tenure disputes are caused by the displacement of local peoples, indicating that companies and investors are not doing enough to understand competing claims to the land they acquire or lease.
Preliminary Review of Concessions and Conflict in Emerging and Frontier Market Concessions, Prepared by TMP Systems, October 2014
A Data-Driven Examination of Land Tenure Risk and Industrial Concessions in Emerging Market Economies. Prepared by TMP Systems, September 2013
An Investment View, Prepared by TMP Systems, December 2012
A global mapping platform providing critical information on the collective land and resource rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities
