ISEAL Alliance

Review of the Good Practice Guidelines for Allanblackia and the UEBT Verification Framework Standard

The Novella Africa Private Public Partnership aims to provide income opportunities for rural households in Nigeria, Tanzania and Ghana via the sustainable production of Allanblackia oil. To that end it is working in to incorporate the good practice guidelines for Allanblackia production into a sector specific application of the UEBT standard on Native Natural ingredients. The UEBT verification framework is an important instrument for ethical sourcing of native natural ingredients. Its allows members and future members of the UEBT to progress towards greater social, environmental and economic sustainability throughout their supply chains.

Simultaneously to the development of Allanblackia sector of the UEBT standard, the Standard itself and its generic application guidance are also being submitted for global multi-stakeholder consultation. Given the close linkage of the three documents, a single document has been created which contains all three components and allows participants to comment on all three of them.

This consultation process will be overseen by Pi Ethics & Commerce (piec.biz) a consultancy company based in Switzerland with proven expertise in the field of social and environmental standardization. PIEC has developed a series of tools to facilitate ISEAL (the International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance) compatible worldwide multi-stakeholder consultations. The consultation process will run until the 10 January 2011, after which date the comments will be analysed and addressed. All participants will be contacted and informed of how the consultation process has progressed and how comments have been answered.

How to download the document and comment

1. Go to PIEC’s Ethical Standard Space (ESS) login page (http://www.piec.org/standards/login.php). You have already registered on the ESS (formerly on the ECL WebMachine).
2. Click on "login" on the left menu. If you have forgotten your password, click on the link "forgot password" and you will receive it by email
3. Click on Standard development
4. Click on Review of Allanblackia and UEBT verification
5. Chose the document you want to download - the UEBT AB application is only available in English. The documents in French and Spanish are only related to the UEBT standard consultation. Click to download document
6. Fill in document making sure to place comments in grey or blue fields only. Please use correct designated field to comment on UEBT standard, UEBT generic guidance or Allanblackia specific guidance.

When you have added all your comments please go back to http://www.piec.org/standards/

1. Login using your email address and password (http://www.piec.biz/standards/). If you have forgotten your password, click on the link "forgot password" and you will receive it by email
2. On the member homepage click on the link: standard development
3. Click on "The Application Guide for Allanblackia to the UEBT Standard"
4. Please make sure to keep the original name of the file so that the system recognizes it:
5. Click the “upload comments” at the bottom of the commenting page.

Alternatively, you can send your comments to rasante [at] piec [dot] biz. Please also contact the same address if you encounter further problems.