{"id":4123,"date":"2021-02-04T23:02:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T23:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highcarbonstock.org\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2023-06-08T07:48:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T06:48:39","slug":"hcsa-steering-group-statement-on-valid-hcsa-and-hcv-hcsa-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highcarbonstock.org\/fr\/hcsa-steering-group-statement-on-valid-hcsa-and-hcv-hcsa-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"HCSA Steering Group Statement on Valid HCSA and HCV-HCSA Assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"

The HCSA has an established Processus d'examen de la qualit\u00e9 du HCSA<\/a> for stand-alone HCSA assessments, in addition to quality assurance processes undertaken by the High Conservation Value Network (HCVN) ALS system<\/a> for HCV-HCSA Assessments, to ensure assessments are credible and transparent. <\/sup>[1]<\/sup><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The HCSA Toolkit is open access but requires companies to register<\/a> planned HCSA assessments and work with Registered HCS Approach Practitioners<\/a> et HCVN ALS Licensed Assessors<\/a> to undertake and submit the assessment(s) for independent review. [2]<\/sup><\/a> These requirements are in place to ensure quality of assessments is in accordance with the Bo\u00eete \u00e0 outils HCSA<\/a> and\/or Manuel d'\u00e9valuation du HCV-HCSA<\/a>. These quality assurance processes also assist in ensuring that any claims made by land managers are supported by published registrations and results of the quality review processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HCSA or HCV-HCSA assessment will only be recognised as a valid assessment if the HCSA Quality Assurance or HCVN ALS system requirements are complied with and assessments are published.[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We strongly encourage organisations that have not yet registered and\/or submitted HCSA stand-alone or HCV-HCSA assessments for quality assurance to do so to obtain recognition of a valid assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also see the HCSA Communication and Claims Guide<\/a> for claims that can be made when referring to the use of the HCSA Toolkit when implementing the HCS Approach or HCV-HCS Approach that adhere to the recognised quality assurance processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> The HCSA Quality Review Process is a quality assurance process to be followed by HCSA\u2019s members of the Steering Group members\u2019 operations from 7th<\/sup> December, 2015 (HCS Approach Quality Review Process) and for their supply chain and investment holdings from 20th<\/sup> December 2016 (HCS Approach SG Membership Document Version 2, Final<\/a>).  For other users of the HCSA Toolkit the quality assurance process was expected to be followed from the launch of Toolkit Version 2.0 from 3rd<\/sup> May 2017 onwards or earlier if a review was requested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After November 2017, companies are required to conduct\/commission HCV-HCSA Assessments which are evaluated by the HCVN ALS.  HCV-HCSA assessments are evaluated by a Quality Panel through the HCVN\u2019s Assessor Licensing Scheme. For more details on the two quality assurance processes see this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[2]<\/a> HCSA assessments are registered on HCSA\u2019s website ici<\/a>.  HCSA members are required to register both HCSA stand-alone and HCV-HCSA assessments with the HCSA secretariat. Non-member are required to register HCSA stand-alone assessment as part of the HCSA QA process and encouraged to register HCV-HCSA assessments with the HCSA secretariat even though the QA process will be conducted by HCVN ALS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[3]<\/a> After the First Round of Peer Review the company can address the findings and recommendations and provide responses to them and may also update their HCSA report as a result.  Peer reviewers then finalise the findings and recommendations in a final Peer Review Report.  The company can also make an additional public response to the final report which is published on the HCSA website \u2013 see more details ici<\/a>. In the ALS, assessors submit reports for evaluation by the ALS Quality Panel, which gives a satisfactory or unsatisfactory outcome. If the evaluation has an unsatisfactory outcome, assessors can amend and resubmit reports for re-evaluation for a total of two times.  Peer reviewed HCSA stand-alone assessments are published ici<\/a> and ALS evaluated HCV-HCSA assessments are published ici<\/a>.  Additionally, through HCSA\u2019s GFW Pro monitoring platform, conservation areas identified under HCSA stand-alone and HCV-HCSA assessments of HCSA Steering Group member\u2019s operations, raw material suppliers, and investment operations will be monitored to ensure they are maintained.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The HCSA has an established HCSA Quality Review Process for stand-alone HCSA assessments, in addition to quality assurance processes undertaken by the High Conservation Value Network (HCVN) ALS system for HCV-HCSA Assessments, to ensure assessments are credible and transparent. [1] The HCSA Toolkit is open access but requires companies to register planned HCSA assessments and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highcarbonstock.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highcarbonstock.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highcarbonstock.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highcarbonstock.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highcarbonstock.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highcarbonstock.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15785,"href":"https:\/\/highcarbonstock.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions\/15785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highcarbonstock.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highcarbonstock.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highcarbonstock.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}