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ENABLE Training Toolkit on addressing child labor and forced labor in agricultural supply chains
  • TRAINING /
    CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT
Overview

The Fair Labor Association developed the ENABLE Training Toolkit to preprare sustainability managers, master trainers, and field-level practitioners to apply components of the USDA Guidelines for Eliminating Child Labor and Forced Labor in Agricultural Supply Chains in the context of their own organizations. It aids in the understanding of implementing in a human rights due diligence program.

The ENABLE Toolkit contains six training modules, a facilitator's guide, presentation slides, and a participant manual. The toolkit provides guidance to companies and suppliers who are interested in adopting the USDA Guidelines or similar responsible sourcing frameworks, and supports fulfillment of emerging regulatory requirements on supply chain mapping and the abolition of child labor issues in supply chains.

Activities / Outputs / Results

The ENABLE Toolkit provides training sessions, based on a modular approach.
It comprised of a total of 6 modules that can be conducted consecutively or separated and administered as independent module:

  • Setting standards: learn to identify child and forced labor, underlying causes

  • Integrating human rights into business: learn what is a human rights due diligence program, and how to negotiate its basic elements

  • Communication and stakeholder engagement: stakeholder engagement importance and strategy, including how to map stakeholders

  • Monitoring child labor and forced labor: identify the limitations of compliance-based auditing approaches and recognize the value of human-centered monitoring, worker profiling, and understanding community and cultural contexts

  • Remediating child labor and forced labor: understand the differences between repairing harm and reducing likelihood of reoccurance by instituting systematic actions essential for remediation

  • Workers voices, feedback and grievance mechanism: understand the main elements, principles and steps to step up functioning worker feedback and grievance procedures.