Clean Clothes Campaign Evaluation and strategy
discussion
Dear friends,
The Clean Clothes Campaign is 10 years old. Please take part
in evaluating our activities and formulating future strategy.
After working in many different ways and with many different
people on the issue of labour conditions in the global garment
and sportswear industry, we feel it is high time for an evaluation
of:
- Our aims and activities, and their impact
- The way in which the campaign functions and is organized
The other part of the project is to jointly redefine our strategy
for the coming years. What should be the main aims and activities
of the Clean Clothes Campaign? How should it be organized?
The first step is a consultation by email/fax/letter of all the
groups and people we've worked with via the attached questionnaire.
After that, a more in depth consultation will follow via more questionnaires,
via visits and exchanges, internal evaluations and hopefully input
from your all.
Two papers will be written, one for evaluation purposes and one
for strategy purposes. These will be widely circulated for comments.
From March 7-11 2001 an international strategy meeting will be organized
in Barcelona to discuss the issues with representatives from the
different CCC's and the organisations we work with outside Europe.
The results of this will again be circulated for comments, and by
then we should ideally have a much clearer idea of where to go and
how to get there...
We sincerely hope you will all actively participate with us in
this project. Any material you have that might be useful, please
send us. We want you all to be able to influence the debate and
be part of the decision making process. We know how hard it is in
the daily run of things to make time for thinking about long term
strategies, replying to questionnaires and reading papers.... but
we cannot do this without you!
Questionnaire:
- If you had to explain to someone what the CCC was about what
would you say?
- In which respects is the campaign useful for your work and/or
your organization?
- What aspects of the campaign do you think are not useful?
- What do you think are the strengths of the campaign?
- What are the weaknesses?
- What do you think the campaign accomplished?
- What do you think it should have accomplished but didn't?
The CCC has a strict focus on improving global working conditions
in the garment and sportswear (including shoes) industry. Back in
the early nineties when the public attention for global labour issues
was minimal (at least in the consumer countries) we chose this strategy
because having an example product would allow us to inform and educate
people and to cooperate with a wide variety of organizations unused
to working in alliances.
- do you think this focus should be maintained? if so, why?
- if not, how should it be expanded: issuewise (f.e. add environmental
aspects) or productwise (f.e. add other sectors of industry)
Mail to info@cleanclothes.org
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