📅 Join us @OECD Forum on Due Diligence for our side sessions: Towards a person-centred industry: Insights gained from The Industry We Want's 2024 Industry Dashboard. 🌐Online, Feb 20 @ 1:30-2:45 pm CET 🔗 @fairwear_org @apprlcoalition @ethicaltrade #TIWW

"Increasing parallel #GrievanceMechanisms means workers will have to navigate multiple processes. We need to collaborate to mitigate additional burdens on workers. We need to understand what good access to remedy looks like." - Liselotte Goemans, GM Coordinator @FairWear_org

“Accessibility is key. It is important for us to have our local teams who speak the different local languages so that the workers can communicate, talk in a language that they feel comfortable in.” - Liselotte Goemans, #GrievanceMechanism Coordinator @FairWear_org @OECD_BizFin

“The key challenges brands are experiencing in terms of #DueDiligence when it comes to retailers are the need for standardisation of expectations and a timely approach to comply with the new requirements.” - @drewmartin100, @apprlcoalition & @IndustryWeWant @OECD_BizFin #TIWW

“Retailers, because of the scope of brands they carry, have the unique opportunity and responsibility to set the expectations on responsible business conduct.” - @drewmartin100, Executive Vice President @apprlcoalition & Executive Representative @IndustryWeWant @OECD_BizFin #RBC

🙏 THANK YOU to everyone who joined our side session at the @OECD Forum! To catch the session recording, sign up for our mailing list: Read more in our Press Release: @Fairwear @apprlcoalition @Ethicaltrade @OECD_BizFin #TIWW

“We are still driven by cost reduction. We need to change the logic of the system. For this to happen we need to empower social dialogue." - Dr. Hakan Karaosman, Assistant Professor @CardiffUni, Chief Scientist at FReSCH & Chair at @UCRFashion @OECD_BizFin #TIWW #24Dashboard

There's limited space for workers in important international forums. It is important that we create spaces for them, see them as changemakers with ideas and solutions. We need to create solutions with them, not just for them. - Thivya Rakini, Trade Union Leader @tamil_labour

“We need to stop this vicious blame game that all stakeholders, brands, suppliers, and worker trade unions are caught in.” -Dr. @RubanaHuq, Ex-President at @BrandBGMEA, Managing Director @MohammadiGroup and Vice Chancellor at @AUW_Chittagong @OECD_BizFin #TIWW #24Dashboard

“Binding agreements create long term relationships and trust between suppliers, trade unions and brands. This improves relationships, which can improve worker retention & worker well-being.” - Thivya Rakini, Trade Union Leader at @tamil_labour @OECD_BizFin #TIWW #24Dashboard

“We need to challenge the culture of the supply chain. Why do we continue to empower the powerholder at the expense of the worker?” - Thivya Rakini, Trade Union Leader at @tamil_labour @OECD_BizFin #TIWW #24Dashboard @fairwear_org @apprlcoalition @ethicaltrade

“Responsible purchasing practices are at the heart of everything, because all the solutions require money, time and energy.” - Dr. Hakan Karaosman, Assistant Professor @CardiffUni, Chief Scientist at FReSCH & Chair at @UCRFashion @OECD_BizFin #TIWW #24Dashboard

"We need to understand the real-time implications of our business activities, both socially and environmentally, and how they are perceived in their local context." -Emma Harding, Ethics and Social Sustainability Senior Manager at @ThePangaia @OECD_BizFin #TIWW #24Dashboard

“We need to be brave and lead where we can. As legislation comes in, businesses need to aim higher and do more at a faster pace.” - Adam Gardiner, Sustainability Manager @rapha @OECD_BizFin #TIWW #24Dashboard @fairwear_org @apprlcoalition @ethicaltrade

“Collaboration on innovations between brands and manufacturers is important. Both sides need to walk the talk to identify the hot topics, such as waste and GHGe, to work together” - Oanh Nguyen,HSE & Sustainability Manager @SaitexD @OECD_BizFin #TIWW #24Dashboard @apprlcoalition

“Capturing GHGe data is very technology driven. We need knowledge sharing on ideal benchmarks for different activities and optimal GHG levels, on data capturing and management tools” - Chandrima Chatterjee, Secretary General @CITIindia_com @OECD_BizFin #TIWW #24Dashboard

“The textile and garment industry needs to focus on training courses to increase the use of renewable energy sources and support studies on the biomass supply chain.” - Oanh Nguyen,HSE & Sustainability Manager @SaitexD @OECD_BizFin #TIWW #24Dashboard @apprlcoalition

“Reporting is key to hold businesses to account. We need to be honest when we’re not making progress and then, subsequently, create a safe space where people can come together to find solutions. ” - Adam Gardiner, Sustainability Manager @rapha @OECD_BizFin #TIWW #24Dashboard

#TIWW 2024 GHGe score is 0.879GT. Unchecked, Aii estimates that emissions will grow to 1.17 Gt by 2030, well off pace to deliver the 45% absolute reduction needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degree. @OECD_BizFin #24Dashboard @fairwear_org @apprlcoalition @ethicaltrade

“Workplace social dialogue between workers, trade unions and factory management is a very important channel for workers to raise their voices, and share them with the brands or buyers.” -Ann Dinh, Program Manager @ NGO CDI @OECD_BizFin #TIWW #Dashboard @fairwear_org

“We have to change the social balance we have in the world. People working in the informal market have no rights and no minimum wage, not to speak about a living wage.” -Angela Bozzon, Social Responsibility Manager for Abvtex Program @OECD_BizFin #TIWW #24Dashboard @fairwear_org