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In this section we will regularly outline a piece of work on which NovoTRADE would like to invite comments from others.
The paper below was written by two NovoTRADE members, Sasha Courville and Maarten Rijninks, for the IFOAM Scientific Conference 2000 (Basel, August 2000). The paper was sponsored by Hivos and Novib. If you are involved in the organic or fair trade movement, please feel free to give your reaction in email at social.agenda@novotrade.nl.
Through these kinds of activities, we hope
- to provide IFOAM members with background research and information for an informed discussion on the social agenda;
- to strengthen the relationship between social justice and organic movements; and
- to stimulate the awareness-raising and capacity building process of companies inside the organic, fair and ethical trade movements to fulfil demands for socially responsible and environmentally preferable products.
Sasha Courville and Maarten Rijninks
Email: social.agenda@novotrade.nl
Options for Code of Conduct IFOAM traders
The following IFOAM programme supported drafting the options paper:
"Development of Organic Agriculture in developing countries until 2002"
Sponsored by NOVIB and HIVOS, both The Netherlands.
This paper is for distribution among Organic Traders.
Please send comments and suggestion by November 1, 2000 to maarten.rijninks@novotrade.nl and sasha.courville@anu.edu.au
4 September 2000
NovoTRADE
Sasha Courville (Australia) and
Maarten Rijninks (The Netherlands)
Content:
| Acknowledgements |
| Broad Context |
| Developing A code of Conduct |
| Areas to Consider for Inclusion into the Code of Conduct |
| How strong should the code be? |
| Impacts on the Supply Chain and Financial Responsibility |
| Process to draft a code of conduct |
| Introduction |
| Suggestion regarding the underlying basis for the Code of Conduct |
| Discussion |
| Preamble |
| Suggestions for Concepts to be included in the Preamble |
| Discussion |
| Basic Labour Requirements for Organic Traders and Suppliers |
| Background |
| Suggestions as to Basic Labour Requirements |
| Discussion |
| Labour requirements above basic codes |
| Background |
| Suggestions as to additional labour practice requirements |
| Working Relationships for Organic Traders |
| Background |
| Suggested Requirements |
| Relationships with the Organic Movement in General |
| Internal Relationships within the Organic Trading Company |
| Relationships between Organic Trading Companies |
| Relationships with Trading Partners (both Suppliers and Clients) |
| Discussion |
| Implementating and Monitoring the code |
| Options for a Monitoring Mechanism |
| Self-Monitoring |
| Self-Monitoring plus Reporting Structures in Place |
| Third Party Verification |
| Overseeing the Implementation of the Code of Conduct |
| Considerations in Monitoring |
| References made to the code |
| Discussion |
| Bibliography |
| Annex 1: ICFTU/ITS Basic Code of Labour Practice |
| Preamble |
| Annex 2: SA8000 code |
| Annex 3: Base code Ethical Trading Initiative |
| Annex 4: IFAT Code of Practices |
| Annex 5: Code for the production of cut-flowers |
| Annex 6: Rapunzel: "Hand in Hand" Criteria |
| Annex 7: relationship, obligations and rights of the FLO members |
| Annex 8: list of definitions of Social Accountability International |
last updated: 24 october 2000
