Register for Public session ‘Progress and lessons learnt’, October 19th 2023

Implementing Responsible Purchasing Practices: Sharing progress and lessons learnt

19th October 2023, 10 - 11 CET

The Responsible Purchasing Practices Learning and Implementation Community (LIC), supports companies in practically improving purchasing practices, using the Common Framework on Responsible Purchasing Practices (CFRPP) as a reference point. The group of 36 garment brands and retailers in the community have committed to working on improving purchasing practices, together with their supply chain partners. They are gathering regularly as a peer-learning community over a period of 2 years. At this point, half way through the community’s journey, we are inviting you to a public meeting where we will share progress and our learnings so far. Publicly available tools developed by the LIC will be shared including learnings on working with supply chain partners on improvements and exercises developed to establish a shared understanding of current purchasing practices and their impacts and to prioritise actions. Speakers will include commercial team leadership from the participating brands, a manufacturer from Pakistan and representatives of the organising MSIs. 

The LIC is one of the activities established by the Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Working Group on Responsible Purchasing Practices and is led by Ethical Trading Initiative, Ethical Trade Norway, Fair Wear, the German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) and Solidaridad. 

The community involves meetings for sharing good practices and learnings (from experts, manufacturers and companies) and developing and sharing practical tools, resources and guidance to support companies in their progress. An essential element of the community is the involvement of supply chain partners of participating companies and manufacturers proposed by The Sustainable Terms of Trade Initiative (STTI), to find practical solutions that are workable in the supply chain. 

The Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Working Group on Responsible Purchasing Practices, which collaborated to develop the Common Framework for Responsible Purchasing Practices, is also working together on disseminating and promoting the uptake and implementation of the Framework, and on influencing relevant policy. 

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