STA Toolkit
The STA project has produced a guide for public authorities wishing to procure sustainable timber products. Furthermore the project published case studies, fact sheets, training material, guidance for other stakeholders, and reports.
The tools have been developed by the project partners in consultation with stakeholders from across Europe.
We are interested to hear about your experiences in using the toolkit, and any comments you may have – please email procurement@iclei.org
Buying Sustainable Timber - 2nd Edition
The Buying Sustainable Timber guide is designed to help European public authorities make sure the timber products they buy are sustainable. It offers a straightforward procurement model with text which can be directly inserted into tendering documents. It also offers guidance for authorities that wish to go beyond this and seek to use timber procurement as a tool to help improve the livelihoods of forest communities and workers in less developed countries.
Following considerable interest and feedback on the 1st edition, a new edition was published in October 2013. Printed copies of the English guide can be requested from procurement@iclei.org.
It is also available in German, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and Hungarian.
Download the 2nd edition here [pdf, 9.5 MB].
Other resources
Good practice examples from:
- Barcelona, Spain
(also available in Estonian)
- Toledo,Spain
(also available in Estonian)
- Bremen, Germany
- Vorarlberg, Austria
- Firenze, Italy
- London, United Kingdom
- Cornwall, United Kingdom
(also available in Estonian)
- Cognac, France
(also available in Estonian)
Guidance for:
- European timber SMEs - Guidance on providing sustainable timber to meet the growing demand from the public sector (also available in Spanish)
- Community forests in the developing world- Guidance on how to combine sustainable forest management and fair trade certification (also available in Spanish)
Training material on sustainable timber procurement for:
- Public authorities
- Module 1: Timber and public authorities
- Module 2: Sustainable timber and certification
- Module 3: Introduction to sustainable timber procurement
- Module 4: Sustainable timber procurement step by step
- Companies supplying to public authorities
- Module 1: Timber market and the public sector
- Module 2: CSR in the forestry sector and sustainable timber supply
- Module 3: Sustainable public procurement
- Module 4: Procuring sustainable timber
- Also available in Estonian, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Spanish and Italian
Reports
- Cutting edge - Combining Sustainable Forest Management and Fair Trade for Public Procurement (Feb 2012) - A background report which explores potential approaches for combining the concepts of sustainable forest management (SFM) and Fair Trade (FT) in the procurement of timber-based products by European public authorities.
