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Trend & risk analysis

We research and monitor global and sectoral trends within the decent work field to help clients undertake due diligence to identify and manage the risks associated with their labour and human rights commitments, as they apply within their own operations, their supply chains, and investment and donor relationships.

Key to understanding trends and risk is close monitoring of the perspectives of actors including inter-governmental bodies, multi-national brands, trades unions and civil society campaigners. We do this through screening public statements and maintaining close relations with social partners and others stakeholders.

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Trend and risk analysis projects

Labour and the electronics sector

Ergon was commissioned by the Better Work programme (a partnership of the ILO and IFC) to evaluate the potential for extending its operations into the electronics manufacturing sector, and make recommendations against Better Work’s operating criteria. Click here for more information

Social impacts of cotton cultivation

The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) commissioned us to assist in understanding its role in addressing the social and labour impacts in cotton cultivation at farm-level, focused on three major cotton-growing regions – West Africa, South Asia (India and Pakistan) and Brazil. Click here for more information

How can brands improve standards in cotton cultivation

Ergon worked with a major garment brand to develop its understanding of how it could use its influence to promote more sustainable cotton cultivation, focusing on the socio-economic and labour rights impacts of cotton farming. Click here for more information

Ergon Associates Ltd