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Realizing the potential of community-based data and information for company due diligence and compliance with international standards and best practice: A Guide for Companies and Investors

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.

Analysis

Joint Action and Collaboration for the Promotion of Responsible Tree Plantation Investments in National Production Forest Areas

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.

Guidance and Tools

Interlaken Group Maturity Matrix

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.

Guidance and Tools

Landscope

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

Institutional Information

Vision, Purpose, and Organization of the Interlaken Group

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

Analysis

Tenure and Investment in Southeast Asia

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.

Guidance and Tools

Land Legacy Issues

This guidance provides operational guidance for companies confronting legacy land issues

Analysis

Tenure and Investment in Africa

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.

Guidance and Tools

Interactive VGGT Guide

Analysis

Background Document on Guidance to Corporates on the Practical Application of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure (VGGT)

Analysis

Communities as Counterparties

Preliminary Review of Concessions and Conflict in Emerging and Frontier Market Concessions, Prepared by TMP Systems, October 2014

Analysis

Global Capital, Local Concessions

A Data-Driven Examination of Land Tenure Risk and Industrial Concessions in Emerging Market Economies. Prepared by TMP Systems, September 2013

Analysis

The Financial Risks of Insecure Land Tenure

An Investment View, Prepared by TMP Systems, December 2012

Guidance and Tools

LandMark (Beta)

A global mapping platform providing critical information on the collective land and resource rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities