Ecuador - NICFI 26-28 GI-TOC From roots to enrichment: a global response to forest crime

About this project

Tropical forests face a complex web of criminal threats —illegal logging, mining, land grabs, carbon fraud and wildlife trafficking — that destroys ecosystems, fuels climate breakdown, and violently targets Indigenous defenders. Forest crime is sabotaging global climate action and national goals, with criminal networks driving as much as 90% of deforestation in some priority countries. GI-TOC will work to reduce forest crime by exposing the modus operandi of criminal networks, and how corruption enables illegal deforestation and undermines the rule of law in forest areas. GI-TOC will do this by: - Investigating forest crime supply chains to expose individuals, companies, enablers, modus operandi and financial flows that lead to forest destruction. - Strengthening law enforcement activities deter actors from committing forest crime. - Strengthening private sector safeguards, including greater transparency and more robust due diligence controls, help restrict illicit supply chains linked to forest crimes. - Helping Indigenous local communities and partners to have better capacity to prevent and combat forest crime. - Help establish new coalitions, implementing more innovative and effective policies to address forest crime, through local and national government, the private sector and multilateral forums. GI-TOC plan to target Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), the private sector, Indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities, local and national authorities, and policy and…

Published by

Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation · Government

Countries

Ecuador

Sectors

Environmental policy and administrative management

Focus

Environment · Main focusClimate mitigation · Main focus

Funded by

Norwegian Government

Implemented by

Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

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Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

Published by Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 27 Apr 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: NO-BRC-971277882-QZA-26/0091-2.

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