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CCC Reference Guide on Code Implementation & Verification
Section 3. MSI's and other overseeing mechanisms
Short overview of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives aimed at overseeing
code implementation
A multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) brings together various stakeholders
to address specific issues, in this context these initiatives are taking
up the issues of monitoring and verifying compliance with a code of
conduct. The CCC acts as an actor in multi-stakeholder initiatives.
Once the experience gained in pilot projects are evaluated, the results
demonstrated that the CCC Model Code could be made more concrete through
these MSI's. The CCC increasingly considers harmonisation of both code
content and multi-stakeholder initiatives as an important issue The
apparel and sport shoe sector is the source of the greatest share of
code of conducts issues since the early 1990s.
Five prominent international multi-stakeholder initiatives have been
initiated in the sector. Please find below a short overview of the MSI's
with relevant information and documentation:
- Ethical Trading Initiative
- Fair Labor Association
- Fair Wear Foundation
- Social Accountability International
- Workers Rights Consortium
Business controlled mechanisms
The above-mentioned five multi-stakeholder initiatives do not constitute
an exhaustive list. Several other business-controlled initiatives have
emerged, some examples include:
Next steps: towards credible European Verification
- The Jo-in initiative
In Spring 2003 the Ethical Trading Initiative took the initiative
to bring together six organisations, each working on the implementation
and/or enforcement of labour standards. The organizations eventually
committed to a joint project with the purpose to explore opportunities
for collaborative efforts to improve workplace conditions in the garment
industry and generate learning in the implementation of labour codes
of conduct. Read more >>
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