Learning and Implementation Community

A group of garment brands and retailers committed to improving purchasing practices gathered regularly as a peer-learning community, working together with supply chain partners, to practically implement changes.

Latest news: Watch our public meeting 'Implementing Responsible Purchasing Practices: Sharing Progress and Lessons Learnt'

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Latest news: Watch our public meeting 'Implementing Responsible Purchasing Practices: Sharing Progress and Lessons Learnt' -

At the closing of the community's 2 year journey, the Learning and Implementation Community (LIC) hosted a public meeting to share progress and learnings at the end of 2024. Publicly available tools developed by the LIC were shared, including exercises designed to establish a shared understanding of current purchasing practices and their impacts and to prioritise actions. Various participating brands shared case studies of their actions, as well as hearing from manufacturers who've been involved, sharing what they felt the benefits have been. You can watch the video and read a press release here.

The LIC is funded by the Initiative for Global Solidarity (IGS) implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) and the Sustainable Textile Initiative: Together for Change (STITCH) (supported by the Dutch Government).

Implementing Responsible Purchasing Practices: Sharing Progress and Lessons Learnt

Halfway through the community's journey, the Learning and Implementation Community (LIC) hosted a public meeting to share progress and learnings. Publicly available tools developed by the LIC were shared, including learnings on working with supply chain partners on improvements and exercises designed to establish a shared understanding of current purchasing practices and their impacts and to prioritise actions. Speakers included commercial team leadership from the participating brands, a Pakistan-based manufacturer, and representatives of the organising MSIs.