Short overview of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives aimed at overseeing code implementation

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CCC Reference Guide on Code Implementation & Verification
Section 3. MSI's and other overseeing mechanisms

Short overview of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives aimed at overseeing code implementation

A multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) brings together various stakeholders to address specific issues, in this context these initiatives are taking up the issues of monitoring and verifying compliance with a code of conduct. The CCC acts as an actor in multi-stakeholder initiatives. Once the experience gained in pilot projects are evaluated, the results demonstrated that the CCC Model Code could be made more concrete through these MSI's. The CCC increasingly considers harmonisation of both code content and multi-stakeholder initiatives as an important issue The apparel and sport shoe sector is the source of the greatest share of code of conducts issues since the early 1990s.

Five prominent international multi-stakeholder initiatives have been initiated in the sector. Please find below a short overview of the MSI's with relevant information and documentation:

Business controlled mechanisms

The above-mentioned five multi-stakeholder initiatives do not constitute an exhaustive list. Several other business-controlled initiatives have emerged, some examples include:

Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI)
Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production (WRAP)
June 11, 2007 - Clean Clothes Campaign rejects GSCP invitation
Dec 23, 2008 - Update on Global Social Compliance Programme (GSCP)

Next steps: towards credible European Verification

The Jo-in initiative
In Spring 2003 the Ethical Trading Initiative took the initiative to bring together six organisations, each working on the implementation and/or enforcement of labour standards. The organizations eventually committed to a joint project with the purpose to explore opportunities for collaborative efforts to improve workplace conditions in the garment industry and generate learning in the implementation of labour codes of conduct. Read more >>