Alliance for Responsible Forest Management (ARFM) has entered a Memorandum of
Understanding with Ascent Partners Group Limited (APGL), a private organisation providing
advisory services in the areas of corporate, technology, mergers and acquisitions, litigation
support, financial reporting, and valuations. As a Financial Institutional Partner to ARFM, the
focus of the Partnership is to support ARFM communicate the importance of best practice in
responsible forest management across the tropical world to governments, the private sector,
civil society, and communities, as well as raise the needed finance to support ARFM activities,
programmes and initiatives. The work will intersect across the three regions of the ARFM
network as well as support the delivery of the annual General Assembly.
Mr Simon Mak, Chief Executive Officer of APGL and his staff bring decades of experience in
investment advisory services, risk analysis, transaction support, mergers and acquisitions,
and cost management services, where they support organisations in the actualisation of
environmental and social governance strategies across sectors and industries. Since 2017,
they have been committed to the UN Global Compact corporate responsibility initiative and its
principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption.
The ARFM Secretariat would like to thank our Executive Board and Institutional Partners, The
Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), and The Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (CSIRFORIG), and Forestry Foreign Affairs Office, Royal Forest Department, Thailand (RFD), for
their hard work, dedication and pursuit to improve best practice in tropical forest management
in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Kindly contact the ARFM Secretariat for more information.
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