Venue: Ukrinform (8/16 B. Khmelnytskoho St., Kyiv).
Format: hybrid (in-person meeting by invitation and online participation).
Target audience: representatives of public authorities, forest and wood-based businesses, NGOs, education and research organizations, international donors, technical aid projects and programmes.
The goal: reveal the role and value of FSC certification in the transformational changes of forestry and woodworking business under ongoing reforms based international experience.
Objectives:
- light up the FSC certification and assess it impact in transformational changes of forest sector and future development;
- to get acquainted with the experience of forest reforms in the Baltic States and the realize the value of FSC in this process;
- discuss the FSC engagement as mechanism to influence the development of the forest sector in Ukraine.
Expected outcome: proposals for a more comprehensive application of FSC certification tools in reform implementation and ensuring positive transformations in the country's forestry sector.
Providing coherent development of Ukraine's forestry sector in the face of ongoing large-scale invasion and simultaneously accelerating EU integration processes requires finding innovative strategies for implementing reforms and consolidating efforts in the «government-business-civil society» triangle.