Partnerships

SAI’s multi-stakeholder approach to address key challenges in the supply chain reflects our belief in bringing all voices to the table to identify solutions. We work with companies, governments, NGO and trade union organizations that represent a wide array of expertise to help us pursue inclusive change.
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Inititative	Description	Countries	Sector(s)	Partner	Funder
AKUT Search & Rescue Association	Emergency and Fire Safety Assessment Services	Bangladesh, Pakistan	Any	AKUT Search & Rescue Association
Comply & Win (Cumple & Gana) [Project completed in 2012]	Strengthening the labor inspection capacity of the Ministries of Labor	Dominican Republic; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala	Government	Foundation for Peace and Democracy (FUNPADEM); Abt Associates	U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL)
China National Textile and Apparel Council	MoU agreement for cooperative work to improve the working conditions and promote social dialogues in workplaces of the apparel/textile sector and beyond	China	Apparel, Textile	CNTAC	CNTAC
Cotton Made in Africa (CmiA)	CmiA aims to support African smallholder cotton farmers to help themselves through trade; SAI is the U.S. representative for CmiA.	Cotton grown in Benin Burkina Faso; Ivory Coast; Malawi; Mozambique; & Zambia	Agriculture; Textiles	Cotton Made in Africa	Aid by Trade Foundation; Cotton Made in Africa
ETI Norway	MoU agreement for cooperative work to advocate for ethical trade practices.	Worldwide	Any	ETI Norway
Electronics Sector Roundtable	Multi-stakeholder roundtables to enable social dialogue on challenges in the electronics sector and discuss effective implementation of workplace standard.	India (other locations TBD)	Electronics	Cividep India
Fair Trade Certified Apparel: Streamlining Audits with the SA8000 Standard	Enabling dual SA8000 and Fair Trade certification of garment industries	Worldwide, initial pilots in India	Apparel	Fair Trade USA
Fire Safety in Bangladesh	Fire Safety & Disaster Prevention; Occupational Health & Safety Training; Multi- stakeholder dialogue.	Bangladesh	Apparel	Bangladesh National Council (BNC); ITGLWF; MFA Forum	MFA Forum
GIZ/Tchibo WE Project	Improving production facilities in Southeast Asia through worker-manager dialogue. SAI staff facilitate the worker-manager trainings in China.	Project Countries: Bangladesh; China; India; Thailand	Apparel; Jewelry; Furniture; Metal goods; Leather	German Development Cooperation (GIZ); Tchibo GmbH (Lead partners)	Public Private Partnership (PPP) Model: GIZ & Tchibo GmbH
Global Social Compliance Programme (GSCP)	Member of the GSCP Partner Organisations Network to harmonize efforts & benchmarking SA8000 through GSCP Equivalence Process.	Worldwide	Any	GSCP
Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights	Development of a handbook and training program based on the Guiding Principles to help businesses develop and implement management systems	Worldwide. initial pilot in Brazil, the Netherlands, India	Any	Interchurch Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO)	ICCO
Labor and Environmental Standards in Trade Finance	6 month pilot project with Rabobank Brazil to develop a model for trade finance incentives for continuous improvement in implementing decent work standards at companies’ supplier factories.	Worldwide	Any	International Finance Corporation (IFC); Rabobank Brazil	IFC
Living Wage: Calculating the Joint Definition, Calculation and Storage of Data	MoU agreement for cooperative work to joint efforts to establish living wage benchmarks for workers in certified workplaces.	Worldwide	Any, depending on locations of certified workplaces	Fairtrade International (FLO); GoodWeave
Magen Tzedek Certification	Development of an auditable and certifiable system to ensure that kosher food products meet standards on labor, environment, and animal welfare.	U.S.	Kosher certified food products	Magen Tzedek Commission; Social Accountability Accreditation Services (SAAS)	Magen Tzedek Commission
“Measure & Improve Your Labor Standards Performance” – Handbook & Toolkit for IFC invested companies	Supply chain management; management systems training.	Worldwide	Any	IFC	IFC
Pillars in Practice Program (PiP)	Program to build the capacity of civil society organizations in Bangladesh, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe, to engage with and train on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.	Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe	Apparel (Bangladesh), Agriculture (Nicaragua), Mining (Zimbabwe)	Danish Institute for Human Rights, CSR Centre Bangladesh, Professional for Corporate and Social Auditing (PASE), Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA)	U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Project Cultivar	Training of workers, managers, and labor inspectors; Social dialogue; Building local capacity for the promotion of human rights	Dominican Republic; Honduras; Nicaragua	Agriculture, specifically bananas, melon, sugar	Local Partners: -Dominican Republic: Center for Research and Cultural Support (CIAC); INCAP -Honduras: Center for Human Development (CDH) -Nicaragua: Professionals for Social and Business Audits (PASE)	U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL)
Rapid Results Institute (RRI)	Integration of the ‘Rapid Results Approach’ into SAI’s Social Fingerprint training curriculum, starting with the ‘Improving Your Internal Social Performance Team” course	Worldwide	Any	Rapid Results Institute (RRI)	RRI
Responsible and Accountable Garment Sector (RAGS): Improving Social Standards in the Indian Ready Made Garment Sector	CSR Training for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) with a focus on gender, home workers, and home worker issues in the ready-made garment sector	India	Apparel	Gap Inc., PGC Switcher, Prakruthi, and Timberland. In cooperation with SAVE, the ETI-UK and the National Homeworkers Group.	PPP model: UK Department for International Development (DFID); Gap Inc.; PGC Switcher; Timberland
Responsible Jewelry Council (RJC)	Cooperation on training, industry outreach and standards harmonisation. Supplier training programs- focus on using management systems to improve labour standards and working conditions.	Worldwide, initial supplier training in India, late 2011.	Jewelry	Responsible Jewelry Council (RJC)	RJC
Scaling Up Indian Responsible Business Initiatives (India PPP)	CSR Training for SME's to scale up local, affordable and harmonized structures	India	All sectors	German Development Cooperation (GIZ); Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI); Gap Inc.; PGC Switcher; Tchibo GmbH; Timberland	Public Private Partnership (PPP) model: GIZ; Gap Inc.; PGC Switcher; Tchibo Gmbh; Timberland
Social Fingerprint & the Norwegian Guarantee Institute for Export Credits (GIEK) Evaluation Improvement Program	Linking the Social Fingerprint Program and its methodology to trade finance	Norway; Vietnam	Shipbuilding	GIEK	GIEK
UN Global Compact: Human Rights Working Group & Supply Chain Sustainability Advisory Group	Strategic policy initiative for businesses committed to aligning operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.	Worldwide	Any	Business & non-business participation
UN Women Gender Equity Seal (UN GES)	Development of an auditable and certifiable standard that will focus on gender equity in a company and its supply chain	Worldwide	Any	UN Women	UN Women
Verification of Anti-Corruption Programs	Anti-corruption: to review the potential applicability and usefulness of experience with social certification systems as guides for verification of companies with anti-bribery program	U.S.A.	Any	Transparency International USA (TI-USA)	Siemens; overseen by the World Bank

Updated: April 2013

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