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SECO (Mandate seco/Intercooperation)
Description
OIBT/seco is an outsourcing and backstopping mandate given to IC by the Swiss Secretariat of State for Economic Affairs (seco). Seco represents Switzerland in the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO). ITTO was founded in 1983. Its mission is to facilitate discussion, consultation and international consultation on issues relating to the international trade and utilization of tropical timber and the sustainable management of its resource base. IC is seco's strategic partner for all activities and international debate relating to the Swiss membership in the ITTO. In this framework, IC provides seco the advisory services in matters relating to tropical forestry in general, and to tropical timber trade and sustainable management of tropical timber producing forests in particular.
Fact sheet
Type: Long-term mandate
Start: 2005
End: 2009
Status: Current
Region: International / Global
Country: Brazil | Cameroon | China | Colombia | Congo | Cote D'ivoire | Ecuador | Gabon | Ghana | Indonesia | Malaysia | Papua New Guinea | Peru | Philippines | Thailand | Viet Nam
Working domain: Natural Resource Management
Key topic: Silviculture and management of natural tropical forests | Forest policy, legislation and sector governance | Forest economics | Economic valuation of forests and forest service functions | Payment of environmental services | Climate change mitigation and carbon trading | Collaborative forest management
Funding source: Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs | International Tropical Timber Organisation
Staff
Responsible at Head Office: Jürgen Blaser
Contact
Address:
P.O. Box 6724
Maulbeerstr. 10
CH-3001 Bern
Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 385 10 10 Fax: +41 31 385 10 09
E-Mail: foren@intercooperaration.ch
Website: www.tropicalforests.ch
Resp. for this entry: jblaser
