Introduction
Governance arrangement | ||||
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Role of government: | Mandating: | Partnering: | Facilitating: | Endorsing: |
Government regulation | Closed co-governance | Open co-governance | Market governance | |
Policy instruments and interventions: | Coercion, ‘command and control’ legislation, regulators and inspectors, legal and fiscal penalties, payments e.g., transfer payments and grants, tax regimes, public labels & standards, anti-trust rules, policies, direct action | Combining resources, actors engagement, dialog, public private partnerships, covenants/agreements | 'Enabling legislation’, actor dialog, awareness raising, incentives, subsidies, tax rebates, procurement policies, capacity building, supporting spread of labels, self-governing agencies | Product labeling, support for/by civil society initiatives, Industry ‘Best practices’, voluntary labeling and certification standards |
Corporate governance Codes: | Stock exchange regulations and codes, company law, mandatory reporting, disclosure rules | Multi-actor code development, shared monitoring of government, market or civil society initiated or shared incentives | Implementing international principles, reporting stimuli/guidelines, internalization, incentives | Own responsibility: civil society and market initiated, voluntary codes and reporting; peer reviews/pressure |
Conceptual Framework: Value Chain Governance
Methods
Responses to policy, evaluations and advice: |
1. Letter from the Ministry of EA in response to the advice of the Taskforce Biodiversity and Natural Resources (Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation 2012) |
2. Letter of appreciation of the Ministry of EA concerning the European Biodiversity Strategy (Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation 2011) |
3. Assessing IDH’s contribution to public good impacts at scale (2016–2020). First assessment report on the existing evidence behind IDH’s impact stories. Wageningen, Wageningen University & Research and KPMG Advisory N.V.: 121. (Waarts. Y and K. Basso Gumbis de souza 2017) |
Policy documents addressing value chains and/or ecosystem services: |
4. Government Commodity Note (Dutch Cabinet 2011) |
5. Government Sustainability Agenda. A green growth strategy for the Netherlands (Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment 2011) |
6. Biodiversity Policy 2008–2011. Biodiversity works for nature for people forever (Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality 2012) |
7. Natural Capital Agenda: Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity (Uitvoeringsagenda Natuurlijk Kapitaal: behoud en duurzaam gebruik van biodiversiteit) (Ministry of Economic Affairs 2013) |
8. Policy Letter. Corporate social responsibility pays off (Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2013a) |
9. Policy Note. What the world deserves: a new agenda for aid, trade and investment (Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2013b) |
10. Report Dutch international support in the field of climate change (Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2010) |
11. Sustainable Trade Action Plan 2011–2015. Public-private partnership for sustainable commodity chains (IDH 2012) |
12. 2016–2020 Strategy. Innovating for impact @ scale. IDH next stage of sustainable supply chain interventions. IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH 2016) |
Policy documents on governance and collaboration: |
13. Background document for the budget of the Ministry of EA 2011 (Dutch House of Representatives 2011) |
14.Government vision on governance and administrative structure (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations 2011). |
Results
Chain | Case | Driving stakeholder | Value chain stage where ES addressed | Ecosystem services (ES) | Characterization |
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Cocoa | Sustainable Trade Action Plan (STAP) 2010 & UTZ certification 2008 | Private sector (international and Dutch) | Whole chain, particularly producers | ES not explicit in STAP but some ES addressed in UTZ standard | Process-orientated pilot, multi-actor platform |
Payments for ES (PES) 2010 | Private sector (Dutch) | Whole chain, particularly producers | Payments for specific ES | Pilots Ghana & Côte d’Ivoire | |
Soy | Roundtable for Responsible Soy (RTRS) 2006 | Private sector (international & Dutch), civil society, public sector | Whole chain, particularly producers | Attempts to include some ES in the RTRS standard | Process-orientated pilot, multi-actor platform |
Palm oil | Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) 2003 | Private sector (international & Dutch) | Whole chain, particularly producers | Some ES addressed in RSPO standard | Process-orientated pilot, multi-actor platform |
Timber | Sustainable Trade Action Plan (STAP) 2011 | Dutch government | Exporters, manufacturers, retailers | ES implicit via use of voluntary sustainability certification standards | Multi-actor partnerships and platform, finance |
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) 1993 & Forest Certification for Ecosystem Services (ForCES) 2012 | Private sector (international & Dutch) | Whole chain, particularly forest owners/concessionaires | ES addressed in the FSC standard; ForCES certifies ES | Process-orientated pilot, multi-actor platform | |
Dutch Public Procurement Policy 2008 | EU & Dutch government | Whole chain, particularly importers, end buyers and users | ES implicit by referring to FSC and PEFC certification standards | Product- and process- orientated policy; GFTN and TPAC as multi-actor platforms; regulations on sustainability standards in chains | |
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation & Forest Degradation (REDD + ) Indonesia 2010 | International and Dutch NGOs, United Nations, Dutch government | Particularly forest owners/concessionaires, private sector | REDD + specifically mentions ES | Multi-actor platform and partnership, policy practice & research, pilots, learning-orientated, resource-focused |
Strategy/instrument | Cocoa | Soy | Palm oil | Timber | ||||
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IDH & UTZ | PES | RTRS | RSPO | IDH | FSC & ForCES | Dutch Public Procurement Policy | REDD+ | |
Introducing and upscaling voluntary certification standards | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
Partnering and partnerships, including platforms | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Promoting an enabling environment for ecosystem services | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
Simplifying access to information | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||
Encouraging entrepreneurship | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||
Recognizing the role of intermediaries | √ | √ | √ | |||||
Enhancing and supporting collective action | √ | √ | √ | |||||
Commodity innovation | √ | √ | √ | |||||
Creating and testing positive cases and situations and building on experiences | √ | |||||||
Regulation | √ |
Case | Dutch Government | Government production (countries) | NGOs/CSOs | Research | Private sector | Other |
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Cocoa certification | Ministries of Economic and Foreign Affairs | Indirectly through commodity programs & projects | Involved in IDH STAP as partners e.g., Solidaridad | Indirectly through monitoring and evaluation studies | Traders and processing companies, wholesalers and retailers | Certification and support organizations e.g., UTZ Certified |
Cocoa PES | Ministry of Economic Affairs | Directly through projects in origin countries e.g., Ghana | AgroEco Louis Bolk | – | Consultants, traders and processing companies | – |
Soy RTRS | Ministries of Economic and Foreign Affairs | Indirectly through commodity programs & projects | Involved directly through membership of RTRS, via IDH STAP, funding projects and evaluations | Indirectly through monitoring and evaluation studies | Traders and processing companies, wholesalers and retailers | RTRS Secretariat, certification, audit and support organizations |
Palm oil RSPO | Ministries of Economic and Foreign Affairs | Indirectly through commodity programs & projects | Involved in IDH STAP, RSPO, directly initiators e.g., WWF, funding projects and evaluations | Indirectly through monitoring and evaluation studies | Traders and processing companies, wholesalers and retailers | RSPO Secretariat certification, audit and support organizations |
Timber IDH-STAP | Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Indirectly through commodity programs | Involved in STAP as partners e.g., WWF | Indirectly through monitoring and evaluation studies | Dutch concession holders & processing companies, wholesalers and retailers | FSC Netherlands and support organizations |
Timber FSC & ForCES | Indirectly (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other bilateral aid agencies) potential buyers | Indirectly through FLEGT/VPAs | Very active (ForCES: WWF,SNV, RECOFTC/ FSC, WWF, Greenpeace, SMN, ICCO) | Directly via CIFOR | FSC: concession holders & timber companies. | UN, GEF, FSC national and international, ANSAB |
ForCES: forest managers, concession holders, private sector | ||||||
ES buyers not identified | ||||||
Timber Dutch public procurement | Cabinet, Parliament, Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment | Indirectly through TPAC actor internet forum | Indirectly via TPAC internet forum & watchdogs (Friends of the Earth NL, Greenpeace, ICCO, WWF) | – | Building contractors, timber industry, timber importers, (VVNH) | Stichting Probos, Centrum Hout, Stichting Milieukeur, TPAC actor internet forum, AgentschapNL, FSC-NL, PEFC- NL, PIANOo, TPAC |
Timber REDD + | Ministries of Economic and Foreign Affairs | National governments | Indirectly through advisers, consultants, conducting studies | Indirectly through advisers, conducting studies | – | UN, World Bank |