Welcome to the SLCP Signatory Newsflash!
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Don’t forget to vote: SLCP’s Board Elections
As a signatory, your participation in the SLCP Board elections is important and encouraged. You can find all the information you need in order to vote on the Signatory Portal, including:
- Our voting guide, which includes all the relevant information you need to be able to cast your vote,
- Videos from candidates explaining why they would like to represent signatories on the SLCP Board,
- Information on the desired profile & requirements, and
- An explanation of the election process.
Voting will close by end of day on 4 December 2024. The elected Board Members will be announced in midDecember.
If you have any questions related to the Board elections, please email your enquiry to events@slconvergence.org.
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Recap of SLCP’s General Assembly
Last week, SLCP hosted two sessions for the General Assembly, covering a range of topics, including the launch of the SLCP Board elections, a summary of the Signatory survey results, the role of sustainability initiatives in due diligence, and how good data can drive worker well-being.
Did you miss it? Don’t worry, you can watch the session recordings below:
Session 1 Theme: Human Rights Due Diligence
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Session 2 Theme: Data Quality & Integrity
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Interview: The Global Fashion Agenda & SLCP as impact partners
 To coincide with the release of the Global Fashion Agenda’s Monitor 2024, our CEO Janet Mensink spoke to the Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) about how we can work together to create respectful and secure work environments, ensuring that universal human rights are upheld for everyone employed throughout the value chain.
Janet said, “Partnering with GFA has supported us to create impact by amplifying the call to action to the industry to ditch duplicative and repetitive social audits and to adopt the CAF. By joining forces with influential and respected actors such as GFA, we have begun to shift the dial when it comes to the approach to social auditing.”
Read the whole interview on the GFA website.
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‘Improving Buyer-Supplier Equity Through Facility Ownership of Data’
by Janet Mensink
Published via the Sourcing Journal
 SLCP CEO Janet Mensink is writing a series of guest
articles for Sourcing Journal on the need to re-envision
the traditional social auditing model.
In the second of three articles, Janet discusses the importance of creating a social auditing system that addresses power imbalances in buyer-supplier
relationships, providing facilities with greater agency.
This enables a more accurate picture of social and labor conditions in order to drive meaningful improvements.
Janet explains that SLCP supports this shift by creating a system where facilities actively participate in collecting their social and labor data, retain ownership of the externally verified dataset, and control how it is shared. This approach aims to foster a new model of equal partnership between facilities and their buyers.
Read the full article on Sourcing Journal here.
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Welcome to our new SLCP Signatory
Open Supply Hub (OS Hub) is a non-profit powering the transition to safe and sustainable production with the world’s most complete, open and accessible global supply chain map. It shows where global production locations are and who is connected to them and makes that data easy for anyone to work with. In doing so, OS Hub is opening doors to new solutions, targeted investment, and more effective collaborations.
Both SLCP and OS Hub are aligned with the belief that we urgently need collaborative solutions to limit the burden of mandatory human rights due diligence on suppliers. Read more about our collaboration in this blog.
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Reminder: SLCP now available in 13 new countries
SLCP is now active in 13 new countries: Albania, Australia, Austria, Croatia, Ghana, Irelands, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Switzerland, Tanzania, Uganda and the United Arab Emirates.
We encourage brands and manufacturers who want to start receiving SLCP assessments in these countries to ask the facilities to register on the Gateway. To meet current demand, we also encourage Verifier Bodies to apply for these countries now.
Verifier Bodies can find more information on the application process here.
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SLCP Acceptance list: Manufacturers, join now!
Are you a manufacturer rolling out SLCP to your own supplier?
SLCP’s acceptance list shows which brands, buyers and organizations accept SLCP data. This means that if a facility has an SLCP assessment, the company will usually accept this in place of a third party or proprietary social audit.
SLCP’s acceptance list is not just for brands but also for any company that is a buyer in the supply chain and is using SLCP data with their own suppliers.
Do you want to join this list?
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New Joint Policy Vision Statement released by Cascale & SLCP
We are excited to publish a joint policy vision statement with our partner, Cascale. This statement reflects our shared dedication to fostering decent working conditions across global supply chains and highlights the strategic efforts driving our collaboration in the policy space.
Read the joint statement here!
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SLCP's Acceptance List
🎉 We would like to welcome Vaude to our Acceptance list!
🎯 A total of 95 brands, retailers and standard holders now publicly accept SLCP data. You can find the complete list on our wesite.
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Want to communicate with suppliers that you accept SLCP data?
➡️ Use this flyer to let your suppliers know!
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➡️ For practical information on using the SLCP Converged Assessment Framework (CAF), please go to the SLCP Gateway.
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Set up an account on the Signatory Portal - an exclusive platform for SLCP signatories!
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