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CCC Reference Guide on Code Implementation & Verification
Section 2. Pilot projects
CCCs pilot strategy and main pilot projects
The CCC decided to engage in experimental pilot projects with those companies
willing to accept the standards and ideas in the CCC model Code. A pilot
project is defined as a preliminary or experimental trial or test. Pilot
projects have been carried out in conjunction with various garment companies,
to gain more knowledge of what constitutes a good system for best practice
in monitoring and verifying compliance with a code of labour standards.
Pilot projects involving companies from five European countries were
organized. In the UK, the pilots were conducted in the framework of
the Ethical Trading Initiative and in the Netherlands via the Fair Wear
Foundation. Both of these are so-called Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives,
see section 3. In Sweden and Switserland, separate project offices were
established specifically for these pilots. In France, the French CCC
developed detailed plans in cooperation with Auchan for a pilot to be
conducted in Madagascar, which unfortunately never got of the ground.
In these projects, companies, business federations, trade unions, and
NGOs were cooperating within different frameworks, amongst others through
pilot projects in Asia and Eastern Eurpean, in order to gain practical
experience in the field of implementation, monitoring, and verification
of an agreed-upon set of social standards.
The CCC cooperated with the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
(SOMO) to examine the progress and outcomes of these projects in the
period 2000-2002. The most essential characteristics of these pilots
are presented in the table below: http://www.cleanclothes.org/codes/monitoring/pr/fo-character.htm.
As part of this cooperation, SOMO and CCC published an overview describing
the codes, activities.
Please find below more information focusing on the pilot projects that
took place in this period, as well as the documents they produced. The
pilot with Hess Natur (who later joined the FWF) took place much later,
around 2005. For the ETI pilot (or experimental) projects are one of
the key components of their strategy towards better code implementation
and these are ongoing.
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Netherlands - FairWear Foundation
Pilot Project (garment industry)
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Germany - Hess Natur Pilot
Project
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France - Ethique sur l'Etiquette
(clothes, shoes, toys)
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Switzerland - Independent Project
on Independent Monitoring (India and China)
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Sweden - Project on Independent
Monitoring (South Asia and Chinese garment industries)
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UK - Ethical Trading Initiative Experimental Projects (this
document will follow soon)
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