How to participate?

Companies willing to support GSCP’s objectives can do so by joining the programme’s Task Force. The Task Force is the backbone of the programme. It is a wide inclusive constituency of companies who are interested in discussing, understanding and sharing best practices.

By joining the Task Force, participants:

• share leadership with their peers
• contribute to shaping and steering the Global Social Compliance Programme
• identify and share best practices with other world leaders to build the reference tools
• have the opportunity to benchmark or otherwise review their system
• openly discuss key short- and long-term issues in remediation methods with other companies in order to map out the spectrum of existing priorities, define common guidelines based on best practices & develop collaborative approaches to remediation.

Joining the Task Force does not mean that you have to adopt a code or a system.

Participation in the Task Force can be as active as the company wishes. Task Force Members:

• are expected, at the very least, to attend the yearly Forum, share their best practices and actively participate (by electronic means) in the consultation on each step of the working plan (e.g. on the definition of the reference tools)
• have the opportunity, if they wish to, to participate more actively and extensively by nominating themselves or one of their company’s experts to participate in one or more expert working groups
• are eligible to sit on the Executive Board

Membership is open to retailers and brand manufacturers worldwide. Companies do not have to be CIES members to participate in this platform.

If you are interested in participating actively in GSCP, please contact Claudine Musitelli at CIES on c.musitelli@ciesnet.com

Next Meeting

The next GSCP General Meeting will take place in San Francisco on 24-25 September 2008.