The five most important terms on monitoring and verification that are used in this reference guide are given in the glossary of important terms.

A Terminology Guide of commonly used terms in the current field of monitoring and verification for the garment and sportswear industries are available in

• English,
• French,
• Spanish,
• German and
• Macedonian.

Nina Ascoly and Ineke Zeldenrust wrote the guide in 2002-2003 in the context of a joint monitoring and verification project involving SOMO, CCC, the ETI and the FWF. For background information on the development of the guide visit: http://www.cleanclothes.org/codes/monitoring/reports/terminology.htm.

• BSCI - Business Social Compliance Initiative

• CCC - Clean Clothes Campaign

• EC - European Commission

• EP - European Parliament

• ETI - Ethical Trading Initiative

• FLA - Fair Labor Association

• FLO - Fair trade Labelling Organisation

• FWF - Fair Wear Foundation

• ICFTU - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

• ILO - International Labour Organization

• ITGLWF - International Textile and Garment Leather Workers Federation

• MSI - Multi Stakeholder Initiative (ex FWF, FLA, SAI, WRC, ETI)

• NGO - Non Governmental Organization

• OECD - Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development

• SAI - Social Accountability International (SA 8000)

• SOMO - Center for Research on Multinational Corporations (member of CCC NL)

• TNC (MNC) - Transnational Corporation (Multinational Corporation)

• WRAP - Worldwide Responsible Apparel Programme (US business initiative)

• WRC - Workers Rights Consortium