3.3.5

Principle 3: Fair and equitable sharing of benefits derived from the use of biodiversity

Criteria Guidance Evidence & Scoring Importance & Applicability
Criteria 3.3: Criteria 3.3: Local development needs, as defined by producers and their local communities in the cultivation or collection areas, are supported.


3.3.5

Projects are in place to support producers, if required by local circumstances such as lack of living income. Such projects may entail technical or financial resources to support local livelihoods and capacities or advance other local development goals.



 Projects are to be in place when, despite the revenue generated from the activities included in the certification/verification, field operators and their households are not ensured adequate living conditions.
The following elements should be considered to assess living conditions, among others:
  • access to health, education and other basic services
  • housing conditions and other basic services
  • access to food and drinking water
    The need for the above above and other relevant aspects are assessed following 3.3.1
    When living conditions are not adequate, projects shall be promoted or existing projects (if already in place) supported.
    Projects may concern:
  • funding for local development activities
  • support for community empowerment and capacity building
  • support for basic services and infrastructures development
    The OaS is responsible for promoting or supporting projects. To be adequate, project shall address one or more of the emerging priority needs and be commensurate to the business dimension of the OaS with the community. This indicator is applicable to the relationship between OaS and producers, when they're both involved in the scope of the assessment. If the OaS is the producer in the supply chain, this indicator is not applicable.

    • DOCUMENTATION


  • living standards assessment for producers/collectors according to their different locations if relevant, or by default, living wage studies (preferred benchmark: Global Living Wage Coalition)
  • documentation on support provided

    INTERVIEWS


  • conversations with OaS and field operators about projects to support technically and/or financially the field operators and their households, or to develop capacities of producers/collectors and/or promote local development goals
    • Scoring guidance

    0 - No projects in place
    1 - Potential projects to support or start up are identified
    2 - Projects have been started and address some of the identified priority needs for local development
    3 - Projects are advanced, address most or all of the identified priority needs for local development and strive for continours improvement
    N/A - No priority needs have been agreed upon with the communities that are commensurate to the business dimension or projects to address all priority needs identified have already been concluded as planned.

    Score 2 to be reached by third year

    		 Importance
    Critical stepwise


    Applicability
  • Cultivation & wild collection
  • OaS
  • Sub-suppliers
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