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White Paper: HCV Screening for Sustainable Land Use

This white paper was produced as part of the HCV Network's session on HCV Screening for Sustainable Land Use: Prioritizing Conservation and Livelihoods in Production Landscapes at the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) Climate Hybrid Conference on November 6, 2021.

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December 30, 2021

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Landscapes & Jurisdictions
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Annual Report 2022

To ensure the HCV Approach continues to be widely adopted, in 2022 we increased our training course offering, we recruited a small team to grow our landscapes workstream, joined new partnerships and alliances, trialed new tools and continued to engage users of the HCV Approach such as financial institutions, commodity producers, and voluntary sustainability standards.

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April 1, 2023

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HCV Screening Guide

HCV Screening: Guidance for identifying and prioritising action for HCVs in jurisdictional and landscape settings 

This document describes a methodology called High Conservation Value (HCV) screening. HCV screening is a desktop exercise that uses the six HCV definitions to characterize the environmental and social aspects of a landscape or jurisdiction. Screening considers: the likelihood that HCVs are present, identifies threats to those HCVs and indicates which values are most at risk. This guidance was first published in April 2019. In 2020 the guidance was updated to incorporate learning and experience from HCVN-coordinated screenings and inputs from other practitioners. HCV screening teams are the primary audience for the document, but it should also be informative for stakeholders involved in screening processes and for those involved in the wider project or initiative in which a screening is being conducted (e.g. government technical staff, NGOs, donors and investors).

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December 30, 2021

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Landscapes & Jurisdictions
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HCV Screening Course Leaflet

Learn about our self-paced online course: Introduction to HCV Screening

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December 30, 2021

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Landscapes & Jurisdictions
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HCV-HCSA Assessor Training Course (May 2023)

The course aims to ensure that prospective licensed assessors obtain an adequate level of understanding of Assessor Licensing Scheme (ALS) procedures and good practice needed to competently lead an integrated HCV-HCSA assessment. Participants will learn about the High Conservation Value (HCV) and High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approaches and their joint use in practice.


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Landscapes Workshop Report (2022)

Over the last 20 years, the High Conservation Value (HCV) Approach has mainly been applied in single sites for planning production of palm oil, forestry, and other commodities, while ensuring protection of High Conservation Values (HCVs). However, to effectively tackle the climate and biodiversity crises, the HCV Network has started to scale up focus from single commodities and individual farms to entire landscapes and jurisdictions.

On November 30th, 2022, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the HCV Network Secretariat hosted a workshop for several HCV Network Members and partners to discuss how to accelerate this agenda, and how to translate HCV Screening results to effective, long-term actions for protection of HCVs in landscapes and jurisdictions. The HCV Screening methodology was developed by the HCV Network in 2019 in response to increasing demand and interest to scale up the use of the HCV Approach in landscapes and jurisdictions where there is commodity production and other types of land uses.

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ALS Appeal Procedure (2022)

Licensed Assessors who disagree with the result of their HCV assessment report or HCV-HCSA assessment report evaluation result can submit an appeal using our online Appeal Form. This document explains the scope and the process for submitting an appeal. Assessors must only submit one appeal form per evaluation to avoid excessive forms - please see explanation about how to add responses (appeal topics) before clicking submit!

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October 26, 2022

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Quality Assurance
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Membership Leaflet

Is your organization interested in becoming a Member of the HCV Network? This leaflet explains the categories, fees and process for joining.

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December 30, 2021

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FIA Tool - Greater Mekong dry and deciduous forest checklist

Field form with sets of yes/no scoring questions which guide and standardize assessments in dry and deciduous forests from the Greater Mekong region, adding up to a numerical value of forest integrity. Some questions address biodiversity directly (e.g. presence of trees with epiphytes), others serve as indicators of natural conditions or low human pressure (e.g. presence of very large trees and presence of trees of high commercial value). Recent field forms divide scoring questions into two sections: Structure and Composition, and Impacts and Threats.

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December 30, 2021

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Forests
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FIA Tool - Checklist for tropical rainforests in the Darién region

Field form with sets of yes/no scoring questions which guide and standardize assessments in tropical rainforests in the Darién region, adding up to a numerical value of forest integrity. Some questions address biodiversity directly (e.g. presence of trees with epiphytes), others serve as indicators of natural conditions or low human pressure (e.g. presence of very large trees and presence of trees of high commercial value). Recent field forms divide scoring questions into two sections: Structure and Composition, and Impacts and Threats.

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December 30, 2021

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Forests
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FIA Tool - Greater Mekong evergreen forest checklist

Field form with sets of yes/no scoring questions which guide and standardize assessments in evergreen forests from the Greater Mekong region, adding up to a numerical value of forest integrity. Some questions address biodiversity directly (e.g. presence of trees with epiphytes), others serve as indicators of natural conditions or low human pressure (e.g. presence of very large trees and presence of trees of high commercial value). Recent field forms divide scoring questions into two sections: Structure and Composition, and Impacts and Threats.

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December 30, 2021

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FIA Tool - Generic checklist for Scandinavia

Field form with sets of yes/no scoring questions which guide and standardize assessments in Scandinavian forests, adding up to a numerical value of forest integrity. Some questions address biodiversity directly (e.g. presence of trees with epiphytes), others serve as indicators of natural conditions or low human pressure (e.g. presence of very large trees and presence of trees of high commercial value). Recent field forms divide scoring questions into two sections: Structure and Composition, and Impacts and Threats.

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December 30, 2021

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