Overview
The OECD Handbook on Due Diligence for Enabling Living Incomes and Living Wages in Global Supply Chains in the Agricultural, Garment and Footwear Sectors aims to help business understand and respond to risks and impacts related to living income and living wages.
The handbook guides companies on how to use the OECD due diligence framework for achieving living incomes and living wages in global supply chains. It responds to demands by businesses for practical tools to help translate commitments to living incomes and living wages into action as part of their human rights due diligence. The handbook focuses on the agriculture, garment and footwear sectors where inadequate incomes and wages have been identified as prevalent risks. It builds on existing OECD standards on supply chain due diligence and responsible business conduct, notably the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct and the guidances for the agriculture and garment and footwear sectors, and seeks to align with the International Labour Organization (ILO) concept of a living wage.
This publication is accessible online.
Key information
- Start date
October 2024
- End date
Ongoing
- Target group(s)
Companies; Smallholders and cooperatives; Business associations; Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSI); Industry initiatives
- Sector(s)
Agriculture, fishing, forestry; Garment and textile
- Type of initiative
Global
- Type(s) of support
Information & guidance on due diligence; Tools for risk assessment & reporting; Support to regulatory environment
- Type(s) of contributor
EU Member State; International organisation
- Contributor(s)
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Implementing organisation(s)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH