Supply Chain Management

Predicting and Verifying Modern Slavery Risk

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Following the third in a five part series of webinars, hosted in partnership with the International Organization for Migration and the US Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, GFEMS is pleased to share our latest briefing: Predicting and Verifying Modern Slavery Risk-Practical Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics The briefing provides an

Using Employee Feedback to Assess Working Conditions

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Following the second event in a five part series of webinars, hosted in partnership with the International Organization for Migration and the US Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, GFEMS is pleased to share our latest briefing: Using Employee Feedback to Assess Working Conditions: Identifying Risks through Worker Engagement The briefing provides an

Responding to COVID-19: What can companies do to promote responsible recovery?

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As a result of the first in a five part series of webinars, hosted in partnership with the International Organization for Migration and the US Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, GFEMS is pleased to share our latest briefing: Responding to COVID-19: What can companies do to promote responsible recovery? The briefing provides

Social Accountability International

SAI is developing a digital platform that connects buyers with suppliers to improve labor practices and working conditions throughout​ the supply chain. The platform grants suppliers making improvements ​to their production planning access to new buyers, and ​gives buyers greater visibility into their supply chains. It includes a new production capacity calculator, minimizing the risk

ELEVATE

GFEMS is partnering with ELEVATE on multiple projects in multiple geographies in multiple sectors to end forced labor and exploitation. In consortium with Diginex Solutions and Winrock International, this project developed and piloted a mobile application to provide Bangladeshi workers with a suite of tools to make informed decisions about labor migration to the Gulf

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In 2018, the Global Fund launched its first projects with the support of the U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. This inaugural portfolio focused on sex trafficking in India, the Philippines, and Vietnam, forced labor in India’s construction industry, and exploitation and abuse of overseas migrant workers in the Philippines

Impactt Ltd.

Impactt, Ltd. is part of the Global Fund’s Forced Labor Automated Risk Estimator (FLARE project). They are conducting apparel factory/firm audits in India to help validate the outputs of the FLARE tool. This project will help estimate FLARE’s accuracy in predicting a firms likelihood of having forced labor in their supply chain, and ultimately its

Envisage

Envisage is a partner on the FLARE project. Originally piloted in the apparel industry, Envisage is helping GFEMS to expand into a new industry. In this project, Envisage s creating large databases of shrimp peeling firms in India that have been found guilty of using forced labor. In the past, Envisage also created a similar