Responsible Purchasing Practices | Learning and Implementation Community | Public Meeting

The Responsible Purchasing Practices Learning and Implementation Community (LIC) has supported companies in practically improving purchasing practices, using the Common Framework on Responsible Purchasing Practices as a reference point. The group of 35 garment brands and retailers in the community have committed to working on improving purchasing practices, together with supply chain partners. They gathered regularly as a peer-learning community over a period of 2 years, from October 2022 – October 2024.

REGISTER HERE

At this point, at the completion of this part of the community’s journey, we are inviting you to a public meeting where we will share progress and our learnings. We will hear from both brands and manufacturers about what they have learnt and implemented as a result of the community. We will also share practical tools that other companies can use on their RPP journey.

The LIC is one of the activities established by the Working Group on Responsible Purchasing Practices and is led by Ethical Trading Initiative, Ethical Trade Norway, Fair Wear, the German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) and Solidaridad.

The community involved meetings for sharing good practices and learnings (from experts, manufacturers and companies) and developing and sharing practical tools, resources and guidance to support companies in their progress. An essential element of the community has been the involvement of supply chain partners of participating companies and manufacturers proposed by The Sustainable Terms of Trade Initiative (STTI), to find practical solutions that are workable in the supply chain.

The Working Group on Responsible Purchasing Practices, which collaborated to develop the Common Framework for Responsible Purchasing Practices, is also working together on promoting the uptake and implementation of the Framework, developing an assessment framework for RPP and on influencing relevant policy.

https://www.cfrpp.org/learning-and-implementation-community