Trade for Sustainable Development – T4SD

Standards Map Database

A presentation to UNFSS By Joe Wozniak & Mathieu Lamolle 21-22 March 2013

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Trade for Sustainable Development – T4SD A partnership-based effort to provide access to comprehensive information on voluntary sustainability standards & increase opportunities for sustainable production and trade.

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A Global Database that contains information on the scope of each standard (product/geographical scope), the requirements, the verification/certification process, the governance, the standard-setting & review policies, monitoring and evaluation processes as well as research materials.

Main output

Over 115 participating standards initiatives…

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Standards Map tool: www.standardsmap.org

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ITC’s online database offering information on over 100 voluntary sustainability standards, codes of

conduct and audit protocols in Global Supply Chains applicable to

over 80 sectors and over 200 countries & territories.

Standards Map: www.standardsmap.org

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Standards Map: www.standardsmap.org

Select a product or sector

Select a country or region

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StandardsMap: www.standardsmap.org

Identify standards that match your

selection

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StandardsMap: www.standardsmap.org

Review short «At a Glance»

summaries for each standard

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Standards Map: www.standardsmap.org

Generate customized comparisons using 750+ criteria of analysis

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T4SD Standards Map - Research & Publications

Literature review paper series

The impacts on supply chains

The impacts on producers

The interplay private/public

When and how do standards work

Joint publications with partners

Corporate Social Responsibility and the

Role of Voluntary Sustainability Standards

(with researchers)

CSR and value chains: inter-governmental

perspectives (UNCTAD/ILO/OECD)

Ben & Jerry’s Inside the pint: Values-led sourcing

and linked prosperity

Sustainable sourcing and export

guides

A business guide to sustainable sourcing

Practical guides for SMEs: how to engage

in and benefit from sustainable trade

opportunities (agriculture,

manufacturing, services)

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T4SD Standards Map – Self-Assessment

Building on Standards Map: A new tool for SMEs to assess their situation vis-a-vis standards, codes and audit protocols (gap analysis) – Offline Prototype in XLS

•  Technology: Currently in MS Excel, the prototype of T4SD Standards Map self-assessment tool will be turned into an online application in Q3/Q4 2013;

•  Data: The tool is based on data exports from the T4SD Standards Map Database;

•  Flexibility: Allows the user of the tool to customize weightings based on his/her own preference in order to assess its self-assessment the standards: e.g. Critical requirements versus Recommendations / Explicit reference or No explicit reference of the issue in the standard, etc;

•  Key functionalities: •  The user defines the baseline reference; •  Calculations are made to determine level of correspondence and

overlap with selected standards and codes; •  Tables and graphs are automatically generated in the tool.

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T4SD Standards Map – Self-Assessment

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T4SD Standards Map – Self-Assessment

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T4SD Standards Map – Self-Assessment

Customized reports: tables, graphs and charts (Offline Prototype in XLS – online version expected Q3/Q4 2013)

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T4SD Standards Map – Self-Assessment

Self-Assessment customized reports: tables, graphs and charts (Offline Prototype in XLS – online version expected end of 2013)

T4SD Standards Map – Strategic Partnerships

Kompass Nachhaltigkeit: Using the T4SD Standards Database for Public Procurement & SMEs in Germany and Switzerland (SECO; BMZ/GIZ)

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T4SD Standards Map – Strategic Partnerships Committee on Sustainability Assessment – COSA Understanding and promoting sustainability through collaboration and science.

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T4SD Standards Map – Strategic Partnerships

•  State of Sustainability Initiatives – SSI (IISD/SCI/SECO)

•  Sustainability Standards Transparency Initiative – SSTI (GIZ/ISEAL/ITC)

•  Global Social Compliance Programme GSCP

•  SAI Platform, IMD, IDH, SEDEX, CSL, BSR…

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T4SD Standards Map – Capacity Building v Training workshops on how to use Standards Map tools;

v Group activities to analyse and compare private voluntary standards in a given country or region, at the industry / sector or product level;

v Review of thematic areas addressed by standards in various contexts (child labor, gender issues, work and labor rights, forest conservation, carbon emissions…)

v Training of trainers and capacity building.

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