Welcome to the SLCP Signatory Newsflash!
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Fair Wear and SLCP join forces to improve working conditions
In a significant step towards greater convergence of social & labor data, Fair Wear and SLCP today announce a new partnership which will see Fair Wear use SLCP data in their HRDD Facilitation Hub to promote impactful human rights due diligence (HRDD) implementation and eliminate audit duplication.
To formalize our partnership and deepen our collaboration, Janet Mensink, SLCP’s CEO, and Annabel Meurs, Fair Wear’s Associate Director and one of SLCP's Supervisory Board members, signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) centered on three main areas of cooperation: data convergence, policy engagement, and industry engagement.
Want to know more about the partnership? Read about it on our website.
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Impact Report Launch Webinar
Did you miss our Impact Report launch webinar? You can watch the recording here.
You can also check out our Impact Report Executive Summary for the highlights of the report's main findings.
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SLCP in Bangladesh
We are pleased to have wrapped up a successful week-long roadshow in Bangladesh! Led by our Bangladesh Support Associate, Urtty Majumder, and our Business Development Manager, Lottie Watkinson, the roadshow focused on SLCP’s continuous expansion into new sectors and further into supply chains.
Key highlights:
- Delivered five impactful training sessions for new and existing users
- Facilitated a user-experience workshop for Tier 2/3 facilities
- Conducted numerous stakeholder meetings
- Connected with over 300 people in Dhaka and Chittagong.
Big thanks to everyone who supported us along the way, and a special shoutout to all our trainers and guest speakers!
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SLCP Board Meeting
Last week, SLCP was in Copenhagen, where the very first in-person Board meeting for Stichting SLCP was held. The meeting was very positive and productive. Key topics of discussion included high-level strategy and governance, progress checks for 2024, budget considerations, risk assessment, and mitigation strategies.
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SLCP in Action
Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2024
The SLCP team participated in the Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2024, hosted by the Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), which focused on addressing societal and environmental impacts and challenges in the fashion industry,
The GFA has released the 2024 Fashion CEO Agenda, emphasizing the need to "prioritize people" across the fashion value chain. You can read the full report here!
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Engagement with Verifier Bodies and Verifiers
One of the many support tools and resources we offer to enhance the competence and quality of VBs and Verifiers is the VB calibration (training) webinars, which are mandatory to attend.
This year, in addition to the quarterly general calibration webinar, we are including regional sessions(four remote sessions in China, Vietnam, Turkey, and Bangladesh and one in-person session in India). These regional calibrations are designed for quality managers responsible for the SLCP program and SLCP data quality and will address country-specific challenges, emphasizing the alignment of VBs on Tool question interpretation.
Yesterday, we hosted the first regional calibration webinar for China, attended by 50 VBs operating there. We focused on new SLCP requirements, such as mandatory data narrative writing emphasizing the importance of the Assessor/ Verifier Explanation in the verification reports. We provided examples of insufficient verification data from past reports to illustrate the importance of capturing detailed evidence and comprehensive explanation of the actual working conditions of the facility assessed during verifications. Additionally, we clarified the Tool´s questions related to trade unions and social insurance in China.
Stay tuned for the next general calibration webinar on June 27, 2024, and the regional calibration webinar for Vietnam on July 24, 2022. Pre-registration links will follow soon.
There are currently 69 active Verifier Bodies (VBs) and 1003 Verifiers. Interested in knowing the profiles and contact details of VBs? You can find them in the VB Active list here.
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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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