Responsible Sourcing Tool

Overview

The Responsible Sourcing Tool is a free, online resource that provides the information, analysis and practical guidance necessary to effectively address human trafficking and aims to help companies, procurement officials and consumers understand and visualize the risks of human trafficking in supply chains. It also aims to provide companies and other stakeholder with information and resources to protect workers in global supply chains from the risk of human trafficking. The website contains a model compliance plan with downloadable templates and other tools based on Verité’s deep experience helping leading companies combat trafficking in their global supply chains.

Activities / Outputs / Results

This tool allows users to access data on human trafficking risk, filtered by country or by industry/commodity, to understand and visualize them.

It provides:

a country profile with information about key demographics, economic, labor force, and socio-political conditions. In addition to a narrative report on the coutry's trafficking situtation, the graphics present information of factors such as corruption, poverty unemployment, migration rates, civil liberties, union rights, etc. that provide important insights into the conditions and structures of a society that are associated with risk of trafficking, as well as other forms of labor exploitation.
guidance from IO, governemental initiatives and NGOs, case studies and guidance on engaging with survivors of human trafficking.
practical tools from helping leading brand combat trafficking in their supply chain on strong policies, screening and evaluation and compliance management.