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Global Social Compliance Programme
Global Social Compliance Programme encourages
equivalence between various codes, with the aim to
reduce duplication of codes and standards and audits.
Since late 2011 a dedicated Expert Working Group has
been working on the GSCP Reference tool on Social and
Labour Management Systems for Suppliers. A wide range
of input and expertise has gone into ensuring to meet its
objectives in providing a Reference framework for suppliers’
management systems, helping them to efficiently and
systematically integrate social compliance issues in their
daily operations.
DISHA team has also been requested to provide their
inputs. The DISHA team has also been invited to the GSCP
workshop in November 2012, to share the AEPC Code of
Conduct – its approach, methodology, etc, to understand
how it can reduce duplicity. AEPC is engaging with GSCP
for recognition of DISHA programme, following which it can
greatly reduce duplicity in compliance audits.
Project Objectives
• Improve the competitiveness of the apparel manufacturers.
• Increase awareness and enlightenment among apparel
manufacturers on social and environmental standards based
on applicable Indian laws.
• Build capacities of apparel manufacturers to work towards
improving standards of workplace systems and practices
related to social and environment issues.
• Promote a management system oriented thinking and
approach for engaging with the social and environmental
issues.
• Promote a process-based certification system that enables
measurement of progress towards adoption and maintenance
of the benchmark practices in the DISHA Common Code of
Conduct (DISHA-CCC).
Target Beneficiaries:
Tier 1 : Factories
a. Improving Units
b. Initial Units (Typically small factories)
c. Mature Units (Typically large factories)
Tier 2 : Subcontracted workers
Tier 3 : Home Workers
The program will be open to whole textile industry units and not
limited to the garments manufacturing unit. In the first phase
the programme will target Tier 1 factories, especially those in the
small scale sector.
Target : 2600 units to be covered under DISHA programme in
2013-14 to 2016-17
Project strategy
Capacity Building: Partnership and Facilitation, as against
Auditing or Consulting
DISHA Framework: Laws of the Land
Standardization across the Country
Enabling Environment
Putting the Systems in Place
Fixed Term Programme
DISHA orientation cum enrollment workshops
was conducted at the following locations in Feb and March 2012
Tirupur
Bangalore
Chennai
New Delhi
Jaipur
Mumbai
Ludhiana
Kolkata
First level of intervention started in factories
The methodology for the initial intervention programme was as
follows:
As per the methodology, the first level of intervention at the
factories will be the self assessment, through the self assessment
tools (SATs).
Self Assessment Tools (SAT) Session Details
As part of the base line assessment, self assessment forms
were circulated and cluster level sessions on the Self
Assessment Tools (SAT) were conducted in 8 clusters and
covered 96 factories.
Baseline assessment of the expectations through
Quality Assessment Questionnaire (QAQs)
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