Good Practices to Reduce
Forced and/or Child Labor
in
Supply Chains
Training 1
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Foundations for the Work
1. Root cause analysis
vs. Immediate cause response
2. Systems in place
3. Systemic understanding
4. Industry approach
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CREA
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Social economic research and education
center
Focus on human rights and labor rights
Focus on supply chains
Focus on sustainability
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Questions: Sustainability of Whom?
Sustainability of What?
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CREA Work
Operates through on-going partnerships
Example: CREA Collaborative
Engages in research on the ground:
Sustainable Living Wage/Income studies
Sustainable Community studies
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How We Process
Using all our strengths:
 Right brain and Left brain
 Thinking and feeling
 Open ended and decision making
 Culture
 Language
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Systemic Analysis
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How we think
How we use language
How we communicate what we are
thinking
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Systemic analysis
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Taught through a series of constructs.
Each construct is a set of words which
must be defined by the members of a
group
With these definitions, discussions and
analysis are possible
Rather than the talking at one another
that often happens
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Responsibility in the Supply Chain
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Social compliance needs to be integrated
throughout the company
Company has a public statement on its
website re: supply chain and social
compliance
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Responsibility
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Not just to prevent bad publicity
Has to believe in the “why” of social
compliance:
“It’s about the workers”.
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Responsibility (2)
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Company has high level person
responsible for compliance
Compliance program has to be dual
focused: outward looking and inward
looking
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Social Compliance as a Process
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Not just a bunch of pieces
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Question of how the pieces fit together
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Pieces can be moved around to make the
system function the best
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More than a linear set of steps
Integrated system to bring about
improvement over time
Need to sustain the improvement
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Change in Our Understanding
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Origins of social compliance –
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Mandarin International in San Salvador
Independent Monitoring
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GMIES, COVERCO, EMIH
FOCUS: Finding the Problems
Question: Whose responsibility is the FIXING
of the problems?
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Responsibility for Fixing
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Government in country?
Labor Ministry in country?
Company or Brand?
Factory Management?
Monitors?
Workers?
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And what knowledge and skills are needed
for the fixing?
Role of vendors/agencies
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Monitors today – 3 Main groups
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Teams which work directly for the
company/brand
3rd party monitoring groups
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Not for profit – NGO
For Profit
Independent Monitors – NGOs, faith based
groups, labor groups, etc.
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Standards for Monitoring
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Professionalism of the individual
Professionalism of the team
Education
Training
Experience
Process
“MONITORING STANDARDS
for SOCIAL AUDITORS”
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Find and Fix Model
Fixing the immediate – ICA
Immediate Cause Analysis
isolated case
repeating isolated cases
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Find and Fix Model
Root Cause Analysis – RCA
at the factory/field level
at the community/society level
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Find, Fix and Prevent
Preventing the immediate – ICA
Immediate Cause Analysis
isolated case
repeating isolated cases
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Find, Fix and Prevent
Root Cause Analysis – RCA
at the factory/field level
at the community/society level
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