RSPO Interactive Indicators & Guidance 2024
    Rountable On Sustainable Palm Oil

    Develop & Implement Global
    Standards

    For Sustainable Palm Oil Production

    The RSPO is a not-for-profit, international membership organisation established in 2004, that unites stakeholders from the seven sectors of the palm oil industry

    The Stakeholders Of Palm Oil Industry
    Oil Palm Producers
    Consumer Goods Manufacturers
    Banks And Investors
    Social or Developmental NGOs
    Palm Oil Processors And Traders
    Retailers
    Nature Conservation Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs)
    Vision

    RSPO is a global partnership to make palm oil sustainable.

    Theory of Change (ToC)

    The 2024 RSPO Principles and Criteria has been aligned with the revised RSPO ToC.

    Appendix A
    Information System

    RSPO’s prisma ensures certification, traceability, and data security.

    Preamble

    The RSPO Independent Smallholder (ISH) Standard

    The RSPO Independent Smallholder (ISH) Standard was developed in response to the growing recognition by stakeholders for the need to increase smallholders’ inclusion into the RSPO system through a mechanism that takes into consideration the diversity of challenges and situations faced by smallholders globally, together with their varying needs and concerns.

    Both standards structured against the RSPO’s three Impact Pillars using the RSPO Theory of Change as a framework

    Prosperity

    People

    Planet

    The ISH Standard responds to the needs and challenges of independent smallholders with simple and straightforward requirements, and cost-effective tools that consider diversity, capacity, and incentives.

    As part of the simplification process, the standard places larger responsibility on group managers, when compared to the past group certification systems. The standard complements and is organised in alignment with the RSPO Principles and Criteria

    Drafting Guidelines

    The 2024 RSPO Independent Smallholder (ISH) Standard has been drafted based on a simplified adaptation

    The 2024 RSPO Independent Smallholder (ISH) Standard has been drafted based on a simplified adaptation of the “ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2, Principles and Rules for the Structure and Drafting of ISO and IEC documents”, in particular Section 7 “Verbals Forms for Expression of Provisions”. This is to ensure that the 2024 RSPO ISH Standard is written, and can be read or interpreted, in a consistent manner and style across the entire document.
    The following drafting rules were generally applied during the revision process for the 2024 RSPO ISH Standard.
    See Drafting Guidelines

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