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NGOs & CIVIL SOCIETY


Name of Resource

A Guide to Traceability: A Practical Approach to Advance Sustainability in Global Supply Chains

Type

Report

Country / jurisdiction

Global

Organization

Business for Social Responsibility

Date of publishing

9 April 2014

Description

This guide provides an overview of the importance of traceability for sustainability purposes, outlines the global opportunities and challenges it represents, and summarizes practical steps for implementing traceability programme within companies.

Research for this guide revealed that traceability is a tremendously impactful tool for advancing sustainability objectives, but it still has a long way to go before it is an integral part of sustainable supply chain management and used widely by companies. At present, only a very small percentage of commodities are traceable on sustainability attributes.

Availability

ENG: https://www.bsr.org/en/our-insights/report-view/a-guide-to-traceability-a-practical-approach-to-advance-sustainability-in-g


Name of Resource

Addressing Risks of Forced Labor in Supply Chains: Protecting Workers from Unfair Restrictions on their Freedoms at Work

Type

Practical/implementation tool

Country / jurisdiction

Global

Organization

Fair Labor Association

Date of publishing

17 August 2017

Description

The brief focuses on best practices for identifying and eradicating forced labour at the supplier level. It explains the indicators of forced labour as incorporated into the Fair Labor Association (FLA) code, provides examples of risks and violations reported by the FLA’s on-the-ground assessors, and offers recommendations of proactive and cooperative steps that brands can take to ensure that suppliers do not engage in or tolerate trafficking and forced labour.

Availability

ENG: http://www.fairlabor.org/report/addressing-risks-forced-labor-supply-chains

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