Converged Assessment Framework v2.0

A universal social assessment tool designed to provide comprehensive data that helps reduce audit fatigue and supports human rights due diligence.

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An accessible tool

- Optimized question set: Shows facilities only the questions relevant to their self-assessment, while ensuring the final SLCP report retains all the detail required by end-users*. 
- Streamlined assessment process: Uses grouped questions and conditional follow-ups to reduce duplication of questions, making the assessment process easy and quick.
*Verifiers see the full question set to support comprehensive verification and follow-up
- Targeted, risk-based approach: Allows Verifiers to focus on the areas of greatest risk and relevance.
- Streamlined verification process: Clear question structures, answer options, and guidance, allowing more time for validating conditions on the ground.

- CAF v2.0 is aligned with the Foundational Data Set, developed by Better Work to capture the minimum data set required to determine compliance with International Labor Standards & National Labor Law.
- This streamlines data collection and provides the fully comprehensive data set needed to  determine  compliance.
- Mandatory attachments and explanations to provide clearer insights into the data
- Verifier instructions at question-level to support more consistent verification
- New QA Reviewer profile to ensure quality review and accountability
- Preventing duplicate non-compliances: each one is recorded once, where it applies

- Announced and unannounced verifications are removed.
- Semi-announced verification, with a 14-day or 28-day window, aligns with industry practice.
- This provides facilities flexibility and enables risk-based verification.
- Worker engagement becomes a requirement of the self-assessment.
- SLCP will publish a Worker Engagement Protocol explaining how facilities can do it.
- This strengthens assessment credibility and is expected by HRDD requirements.
Allows facilities to upload worker surveys and evidence of additional due diligence activities alongside SLCP assessments, giving stakeholders a broader and deeper picture of facility conditions.
One of the ways to do this is through an SLCP HRDD Trusted Partner. More details here.
Allows facilities to update data between SLCP assessments to provide evidence of remediation for specific legal non-compliances, giving stakeholders quicker visibility into improvements made.

CAF v2.0 Question List
A full view of every question and every data element in CAF v2.0 to help you prepare and update your systems.
Question Change Guide
The guide compares CAF v1.7 and CAF v2.0, showing which questions have been added, changed or removed.
Details on trainings will be available here soon.
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