Certification
Inspiration and lessons learned
Browse a selection of Collective Action initiatives and publications to help you better understand local certification.
If you’re looking for more inspiration and guidance on local certification or other Collective Action projects, feel free to reach out to our Collective Action team at any time. We have two decades of experience in the field and a network of contacts all over the world. All our advice to Collective Action practitioners is free.
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Certification initiatives
The following initiatives have very different structures, goals and approaches to certification. This reflects their very different contexts – in terms of industry, geography, and socio-economic background.
What they have in common is their use of a Collective Action approach to help build trust between stakeholders and find transparent solutions that work for everyone.
Practitioners can take inspiration, keeping in mind their own context.
Ivory Coast
Lithuania
Clear Wave (Baltoji banga) - Transparent Business Labelling Initiative
Nigeria
Corporate Governance Rating System (CGRS) – Convention on Business Integrity, Nigeria
Philippines
Russia
South Africa
Ethically Aware Supplier Induction programme (EASI) and SafeLine – Safe reporting service provider certification – The Ethics Institute, South Africa
Thailand
Thai Collective Action against Corruption (Thai CAC)
Turkey
Certification of compliance professionals by the Turkish Ethics and Reputation Society (TEID)
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
You’ll find these initiatives and more in our B20 Collective Action Hub database. The database is freely downloadable and contains details and further links for 260+ initiatives around the world.
If you’d like to recommend an initiative for potential inclusion in the database and/or in this certification project, please contact our team.
Recommended reading
Our Working Paper 34: Local certification through Collective Action explores the above dilemmas based on discussions and analysis of current local certification initiatives in different countries and sectors. It ends with six practical recommendations for practitioners seeking to develop and implement local certification schemes.
To certify or not to certify? - Blog by Scarlet Wannenwetsch, Project Associate Collective Action
Local certification
An innovative approach to due diligence through Collective Action
Perspectives
What’s at stake for suppliers, customers and business integrity in general
In practice
Insights from practitioners and members of local certification initiatives