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Good Manufacturing Practices

Good Manufacturing Practices can increase the competitiveness and resilience of MSMEs and provide incentives for them to adopt legal and sustainable sourcing and processing practices. Good Manufacturing Practices enable MSMEs to achieve continuous business operations. They consist in systems devised to ensure the consistent production and control of manufacturing following predetermined quality standards. They cover all aspects of manufacturing, from handling raw materials to the manufacturing premises and workers’ activities. Good Manufacturing Practices are mostly practised in the food and pharmaceutical industries, but can be adopted in the wood industry.

What you will learn in this training

  • What are Good Manufacturing Practices?
  • Good Manufacturing Practices in the MSME context
  • Good Manufacturing Practices of the MSMEs in the wood industry
  • Improving MSMEs’ capacity on workshop operation management
  • Improving MSMEs’ capacity on material control
  • Wood Industry Operation Control
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About the Forest Smallholders Project

Since 2016, the European Forest Institute (EFI) has been supporting wood-based micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in four Mekong countries to operate legally and sustainably. Under its Forest Smallholders Project, EFI has been testing solutions to MSMEs’ key challenges in pilot projects. Lessons learnt from these pilots are documented and disseminated nationally, regionally and internationally. Through its support to MSMEs, the Project promotes gender equality and women’s economic empowerment in the forest sector.

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