| Name of the project: |
Going beyond Social Auditing: Towards a Comprehensive and Participatory Monitoring Structure by Enabling In-House Dialogue between Management and Workers |
| Location: |
Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Belgium |
| Activity: |
Trainings, consultancy and technical assistance |
| Sphere: |
Corporate social responsibility |
| Duration: |
11.2006 – 11.2007 |
| Financing organization: |
EU |
| Beneficiary: |
European Commission |
| Partners: |
IRENE, ETUF-TCL |
| Objectives: |
- Тo create a common understanding of stakeholders regarding the following questions:
- What are the benefits and chances of dialogue approaches?
- What are the weaknesses and risks of dialogue approaches?
- What are the criteria for introducing self-sustaining in-house dialogue structures?
- What are the criteria for in-house dialogue structures in the framework of a comprehensive monitoring approach and improved social audit?
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| Activities: |
- providing expert for the brainstorming session
- providing experts to frame the activities, the management practices, the training measures, the resources, etc.
- providing experts for summarising and evaluation of the results of the European seminar
- development of based on systematic approach criteria for in-house dialogue structures between management and workers in the framework of comprehensive and participatory monitoring and improved social auditing
- organising the logistics for the second expert seminar which was held in Bulgaria including visiting Bulgarian apparel factory and discussion with the management and the workers there
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| Results: |
- developed criteria to enable a in-house dialogue between management of suppliers and workers on company level on compliance with social standards in the new EU member states and applicant countries
- suppliers (and retailers), Trade Unions and NGOs have a better understanding on how to go beyond the limits of social audits and how to contribute to systemic solutions for humane working conditions
- increased consistency and convergence on in-house dialogue processes on company-level to overcome the limits of social auditing methods and their application
- overcome ‘auditing fatigue’ and improve management systems criteria for the involvement of worker which allow a development of participatory approaches in auditing and monitoring
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