Upcoming: official launch of the PP-HRDD Framework - click here to learn more

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Upcoming: official launch of the PP-HRDD Framework - click here to learn more -

Building resilience in supply chains through responsible purchasing practices

Responsible purchasing practices are essential to achieve the improvements in factory working conditions that many brands and retailers have publicly committed to. Improved purchasing practices will contribute to preventing harm and facilitating both social and environmental improvements in the supply chain.

The Responsible Purchasing Practices (RPP) Working Group collaborates to promote progress on RPP in the garment industry, using the Common Framework on Responsible Purchasing Practices as a reference point. They work together on disseminating and promoting the uptake and implementation of the Framework, and on influencing relevant policy.

The Common Framework for Responsible Purchasing Practices was developed in 2022 by part of the RPP Working Group (ETI, ET Norway, PST and Fair Wear).
The new Purchasing Practices HRDD Framework is a recommendation to accountability actors, such as policy-makers, regulators, multi-stakeholder initiatives, and investors, who want to strengthen their assessments of brands’ purchasing practices. It aims to align expectations from brands and foster consensus around what responsible purchasing looks like in practice, grounded in lived experience, built on international standards, and tailored to the realities of the sector.