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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. Netherlands - FairWear Foundation Pilot Project (garment industry) -
Germany- Hess Natur Pilot Project -
France- Ethique sur l'Etiquette (clothes, shoes, toys) -
Switzerland- Independent Project on Independent Monitoring (India and China) -
Sweden- Project on Independent Monitoring (South Asia and Chinese garment industries) -
UK- Ethical Trading Initiative Experimental Projects (this document will follow soon)
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