Global Business Network on Forced Labour

Overview

The ILO Global Business Network on Forced Labour is an umbrella of networks offering a forum for collaboration convened by the ILO where business and business networks come together behind a common objective of leveraging comparative advantages and collective action towards the elimination of forced labour and human trafficking. The objectives are also to bring business and employers together in a structured and inclusive way to advance collaboration at the global and country level, and to raise awareness, build leadership, and strengthen capacity for business and employers.

Activities / Outputs / Results

A business-only network opened to firms of all sizes and sector, as well as Employer's and business Membership Organizations including industry trade groups and sectoral associations:

Create space for membership networks industry coalitions and businesses of all sizes to work together on improving how initiatives are coordinated
Draw on the collective insight and experience of leading industry initiatives, global brands, and ILO for improved understanding of the nuances of work across jurisdictions, sector and geographies
Identify, invest in and promote the approaches and tools needed to translate ideas into action at scale by small enterprises in high-risk sectors and geographies
Drive convergence
Resources and publications
Support business to play a more active role in national policy and program formulation so as to promote a coherent response across agencies, sectors and geographies and to keep the structural issues that undermine progress and threaten sustainability in focus