Bærekraft 17

Bærekraft 17 er et innovativt pilotprosjekt i regi av Etisk handel Norge og offentlige virksomheter. Medlemmer og ikke-medlemmer kan delta. Bærekraft 17 skal gi bærekraftige og effektive anskaffelser av høy kvalitet, som fremmer respekt for grunnleggende menneskerettigheter i risikoanskaffelser.

 

Prosjektet er nå inne i en evalueringsfase hvor rapport med anbefalinger videre vil avjøre hva som blir neste fase etter at pilotfasen ble avsluttet den 31.12.21

Bærekraft 17 fremmer og muliggjør samarbeid mellom anskaffelsesmiljøer. Etiske kontraktsvilkår for etterlevelse av grunnleggende menneskerettigheter er utviklet av Etisk handel Norge og Direktoratet for forvaltning og økonomistyring og kontraktsvilkårene ligger til grunn for prosjektet.

Et slikt samarbeid som prosjektet har lagt opp til med organisering i kategoriteam og deling av informasjon, har et stort potensiale. Mange offentlige oppdragsgivere har felles leverandører. Oppfølging av felles leverandører kan gjøres av noen få, på vegne av andre, også når varer som leveres er forskjellige.

I pilotfasen har Bærekraft 17 vært avgrenset til å omhandle arbeidstaker- og menneskerettigheter i leverandørkjeden. Andre tema som miljø og klima, sosial dumping, anti-korrupsjon og dyrevelferd vil vurderes når prosjektet nå evalueres.

Medlemmer i Etisk handel Norge får tilgang til rådgivning, verktøy og ressurser som hjelper dem med utfordringer knyttet til etisk handel og offentlige anskaffelser.

Her kan du lese aktuelle saker om prosjektet

https://www.anbud365.no/bransjer/bygg-og-anlegg/skal-lofte-oppfolging-av-menneskerettighets-krav-aktsomhetsvurderinger-i-fokus/?utm_source=Nyhetsbrev+fra+Anbud365&utm_campaign=decf3602be-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_22_01_20_COPY_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_580f3ce305-decf3602be-102517610

https://www.anbud365.no/regelverk/etisk-handel-prosjekt-vi-onsker-a-bevege-norge/

https://www.anbud365.no/regelverk/offentlige-innkjopere-gar-sammen-om-a-folge-opp-leverandorkjeder/

South Africa

The purpose of this project is to strengthen both sustainability and climate change resilience in the South African wool industries through improving the productivity and quality of poor communal wool farmers, capacity building of factory workers and increased market access, so that the wool industry can provide a living income and secure decent jobs in some of the poorest provinces in South Africa.

 

This project will build on recommendations from ETNs previous work in South Africa. The local implementing partner will be the National Wool Growers Association (NWGA) and their constituent farmer associations. NWGA represent almost 25000 farmers, of which 20000 are communal farmers.

 

The project will strengthen NWGAs existing work to support and represent communal farmers, including institutional development of the farmers’ local representative structures, with a particular focus on increasing women leadership. NWGA field officers’ and other support officers’ capacity on elements like CC resilience building and new market sustainability standards will be increased, with the aim of helping communal farmers improve the quality and sustainability of their wool production making them capable of supplying to the international market and new standards.

 

The project aims at providing an intervention model that can be replicated to support communal wool farmers in other areas of South Africa and be catalytic to secure funds from international and national sources.

 

An additional element will be collaboration with the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) on training of workers in wool processing factories and brokerage firms in to develop their skills to impact positively on the industry as a whole in the region. The project will facilitate contact between the market and the producers to use market mechanisms to promote sustainable farming practices in SA.

Bangladesh

The Joint Ethical Trading Initiatives (JETI) have been working in Bangladesh since 2014, implementing a social dialogue (SD) programme to facilitate and improve dialogue between workers and management, while building workers’ ability to represent their needs. The programme is supported by Norad (until Dec. 2020), the UK FCDO, HSBC and the Dutch Government (expected 2021).

 

In the Bangladeshi context, with continued repression of civil society, including trade union activity, the SD approach serves an important role in facilitating democratic processes in the workplace, which in turn contribute to building the foundations for democratic processes in society as a whole.

 

In the next phase of the programme, we seek to further strengthen the role of our partner ETI Bangladesh in their role as a facilitator of social dialogue at factory, as well as at industry level. With their strong multi-stakeholder networks, ETI Bangladesh is uniquely placed to address the sustainability of the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh, through decent work and climate resilience.

 

The pandemic has hit garment workers in Bangladesh hard, more than 60 per cent of whom are women. At the same time, Bangladesh is one of the countries’ most vulnerable to climate change. The proposed project will build on the existing SD programme, with a focus on intersecting challenges related to the future of work, including decent work, gender equality and climate resilience. Specifically, the project will:

 

  • Strengthen the role and sustainability of ETI Bangladesh as a facilitator of stakeholder dialogue
  • Empower women textile workers to take on leadership roles as part of management and as worker representatives in industrial relations.
  • Drive innovative, collaborative and knowledge-based solutions to build resilience to the impact of climate change on textile workers.
  • Strengthen collaborative platforms by communicating recommendations related to the future of work and support their implementation.