Proforest

What is it?

A toolkit designed to support companies in the responsible sourcing of soy, outlining and providing guidance on the following five key elements:

• Assess and plan implementation – helps a company strengthen its understanding of its strategy, steps, responsibilities, and timeframes.
• Understanding supply chain risks – supports the prioritization of resources, and identifies appropriate actions and plans for interventions, especially for downstream companies.
  • Traceability
  • Risk analysis
• Engaging within and beyond supply chains 
• Monitor, verify, and report – helps track progress and review goals and strategies, increases transparency, and strengthens credibility and accountability.  

How to use it?

Each element contains advice and comprehensive briefing notes designed to support companies in the responsible sourcing of soy.

What is it?

A toolkit designed to support companies in  implementing commitments on responsible sourcing of palm oil, by-products, and derivatives, outlining and providing guidance on the following five key elements:

• Assess and plan implementation – helps a company strengthen its understanding of its strategy, steps, responsibilities, and timeframes.
• Understanding supply chain risks – supports the prioritization of resources, and identifies appropriate actions and plans for interventions, especially for downstream companies.
  • Environmental and social risks
  • Traceability and risk analysis
• Engage within and beyond supply chains 
• Monitor, verify, and report – helps track progress and review goals and strategies, increases transparency, and strengthens credibility and accountability.  

How to use it?

Each element contains advice and comprehensive briefing notes designed to support companies in the responsible sourcing of palm oil.

What is it?

Proforest also assists with landscape and jurisdictional initiatives that bring together government, companies, and communities, to drive transformative change in deforestation, smallholder livelihoods, respect for Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and labor issues. 

They currently have a portfolio of a dozen landscape initiatives including those involving palm oil.

They can assist with:

• Building a business case for investment in landscape initiatives, to understand their supply base and identify priority landscapes:
• Identifying the key issues and long-term impact needed, the scale of investment needed, and whether to get involved with existing initiatives:
• Baseline assessments and analysis, and bringing together different stakeholders within a landscape to help companies align their activities and interventions to have a bigger impact.​
• Understanding how to monitor, measure, and report actions and impact from landscape programs, and how to ensure the local ownership and long-term viability of any landscape initiative.