Aid Efficiency
To ensure accountability and
transparency, an independent third-party verification becomes necessary for
various development projects running by government and private
organizations. Independent third-party inspection ensures proper use of the
funds by the development agencies and NGO's.
In aid efficiency services, SGNCO provides information about the status of
the projects to the stakeholders. We also enlist all the issues that may
impact the timeliness in the project implementation. This way, our services
protect stakeholders' interests and foster effective development processes.
The aid efficiency services includes:
- Procurement Consulting
- Procurement Audits
- Risk Management Assessment
- Country Risk Assessment
- Third-party Verification
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Besides, SGNCO aid efficiency service is focused for institutional
development through:
- Risk Profiling of Development Partners
- NGO Benchmarking
- Deciding the Compatibility of Local Procurement Laws
- Documentary Check on Procurement Steps
- Project Monitoring
- Independent Procurement Review
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Forestry Monitoring Program
SGNCO offers timber legality &
traceability verification (TLTV) services to verify the compliance of timber
products as per the wood procurement legislation. Such legislation is
enforced in almost all countries, which are revised from time to time to
ensure sustainable timber products. However, implementation of such
regulations has always been difficult due to the unavailability of competent
certification agencies.
Therefore, it requires a third-party independent verification for timber
products as per the country specific legislation. SGNCO offers TLTV that
ensures easy access of timber products to restrictive markets through
verification statements. SGNCO provides TLTV services for both the mandatory
and voluntary legislation. TLTV services involve a combination of the
following:
- Verification of timber production and tracking data
- Review of timber tracking systems
- Auditing of company data
- Specific legality investigations and checks
- Data monitoring and processing, information analysis and
reporting
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Mandatory Legal Timber
Validation (MLTV)
SGNCO offers tailor-maid mandatory legal timber validation (MLTV) services,
which demonstrates the legal production of timber logs and products. It
includes continuous monitoring and verification functions for wood
production and trade.
MLTV provides reliable verification to the companies as per the specific
legal requirements of any country, state or region, which prevents illegal
trade and poor management of timber products. Key features of MLTV:
- Document tracking and physical inspection
- To monitor the trade of timber products
- To investigate resource management planning and implementation
- Forest surveillance through remote sensing technologies
- Forest management, auditing and monitoring through field
verification
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Voluntary Legal Timber
Validation (VLTV)
SGNCO offers VLTV services, which involves continuous monitoring and
verification of timber production. It combines voluntary initiative from
forest companies and government authorities. VLTV is used as alternative
when MLTV faces implementation difficulties due to any political or legal
proceedings.
VLTL also fulfills the requirements of multilateral trade agreements by
developing a mandatory framework for the licensing timber product exports.
Under the VLTV, verification statements is issued for timber logs and
products. A VLTV statement is issued the following mentioned four elements.
- Timber processing or trading company
- Production site of the company
- Activities carried out by the company on that site
- Timber products
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Import Verification Programmes
SGNCO provides import verification
program, which play a crucial role in foreign trade. Our verification of
trade transactions protects domestic industries and government revenues
against illegal trade practices. In our import verification programs, we
offer following services:
Conformity Assessment Services
Conformity assessment validates that product, process or services meet
specified requirements. SGNCO offers conformity assessment services through
testing, inspection and certification. The main advantages of conformity
assessment are:
- Assures that products fulfill the requirements of specified
standard
- Ensures confidence for the sustained development of the trade
- Overcomes the risk of business rejection in the export market
- Assists in solving quality and certification problems
- Helps in fast clearance for goods in importing countries
- Prevents the import of dangerous goods
- Prevents deceptive practices
- Reduces the entrance of unsafe and counterfeit products in the
markets
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Destination Inspection
SGNCO provides destination inspection services, which are designed to
provide technical support and capacity building in order to:
- Improve import clearance processes
- Facilitate compliant trade
- Optimize import duties and taxes collection
- Enhance the detection of undeclared and fraudulent transactions
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NGO Benchmarking
SGNCO provides NGO benchmarking services
that ensures efficient and sustained performance of a given non-governmental
organizations. Our services assures the stakeholders that the given NGO's is
implementing its objectives and activities in accountable manner.
The NGO benchmarking services independently assess the working of a NGO
through comprehensive set of perspectives such as:
- Dimensions of best practices like board of trustees, integrity
management, communication and public image, resources allocation and
financial controls, operations and continuous improvement etc.
- Management components like activities, projects, human resources
etc.
- Continuous improvement
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SGNCO measures the compliance of any NGO
on some best practices criteria. These criteria is abstracted from the
eligibility requirements of various public sector organization. SGNCO then
awards certificate to audited NGO. Our benchmarking services enables the
audited NGO to focus on continuous improvement program.
Management of Trade Transactions Risks
SGNCO offers its service to private
organizations and government agencies for the identification and management
of the risks involved in trade transactions. We filter transaction data and
compare its key attributes with a set of risk databases obtained from
specific and generic trade intelligence information.
Such databases incorporate unique trade related intelligence and knowledge
for the areas like valuation, classification and trade fraud. Our trade
transaction risk management services are completely flexible and can be
easily customized as per the specific requirements of the clients.
We use sophisticated technologies and tools to process bulk transaction data
at high speed and transmits risk message to the client. The output from our
services can be used to direct intervene into the identification and
examination of high risk shipments prior to the shipment or final
destination unloading. It may also be applied to those shipments that are
entitled to unhindered green lane clearance.
