The Blueprint For Project Assessment & Due Diligence
Investing in FOREST AND NATURE-BASED PROJECTS offers tremendous opportunities for both financial returns and positive environmental and social impact.
However, navigating the complexities of these investments requires a thorough understanding of the associated risks and impacts, and their interconnectivity, across multiple dimensions.
That’s why we developed GRADE, Xilva’s proprietary forest evaluation methodology, building on the intimate knowledge and deep experience of our forest team’s decades of field experience, and offer it to stakeholders along the whole value chain: investors and corporate buyers.
How it works
It starts with a Project Design Document (PDD), Project Idea Note (PIN) or Feasibility Study. We do the rest.
Upload Project
Documents We Build
the Data
Provide project information by uploading the documents onto the dedicated data room
Xilva curates, pools and stacks data from multiple
sources e g GIS, certification data, land title rights, socio ecological context, research papers
Screening
The data is cross referenced and matched against your criteria to filter & remove poorly defined and red flagged projects.
Grading
We share the results
Xilva forest expert team conducts a holistic assessment of the project based on the proprietary Xilva GRADE framework to provide an integrated understanding of the six interconnected areas of the project. The result is an in depth assessment report, access to all the data, sources and references in the data room, and a 1-hour result presentation plus Q&A with the Xilva team.
What You Get
Detailed GRADE Report
Delivery and reputational risks and suggestion
Insights on project weaknesses and opportunities for improvemen
Xilva expert recommendation on next steps in project advancement and due diligence where applicable
Xilva Expert Team
Dedicated and custom support to understand GRADE results and direct contact with our forest expert team
Project Data Room
Dedicated project data roo
Access to all primary & secondary data source
Access to all cross-referenced sources & insights
Project Monitoring (optional)
Periodic update of data & documents of projec
Monitoring of project mitigation of issues raised in the risk ledger
Real Forest Experts ground the Analysis
Xilva Forest Expert Team’s Combined Background and Expertise
Fores ma ageme
Projec developme
La dscape gover a c
Cer ifica io s a dards a d carbo me hodologie
Corpora e Fi a ce M& , loa sy dica io
Safeguard sys ems desig , clima e resilie c
Leadership a d board experie ce i global NGOs a d s a dards bodies (e.g. global board member FSC)
Major Achievements
Desig ed, ma aged or developed > 100 sus ai able fores ry projec s a d fores ry pla s wi h execu io budge of > 200M
E gaged wi h Norad, LuxDev, SID , DMUB, Da ida, US ID & DFID fu ded projec
Ob ai ed direc corpora e fu di g for 100,000ha ecosys em res ora io co cessio i I do esi
Prepared sus ai able fores ry pla s for more ha 30,000h
Numerous field missio s a d field research i fores ecolog
Lead assessor o >100 fores & supply chai audi s
FIELD MISSIONS
Production models, Carbon and Biodiversity references International and regional costs and prices
