Self-Assessment Tools for the Accountability Framework
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Supply Chain Management
…This Operational Guidance elaborates on the Accountability Framework Core Principles 4, 5, and 6 to provide companies that buy or source agricultural or forest commodities with guidance on effective supply…
Free, Prior and Informed Consent
…their own operations and supply chains, elaborating on Core Principle 2.2.3. This guidance is consistent with numerous binding international instruments and voluntary standards affirming FPIC as a legal and ethical…
Remediation and Access to Remedy
…Framework’s Core Principle 9 to describe how companies can ensure proper remediation and access to remedy related to their supply chain commitments. This document focuses on remedy related to human…
Reporting, Disclosure, and Claims
…about the extent to which they have fulfilled their commitments or made progress towards doing so. This Operational Guidance elaborates on Core Principle 12, specifying good practice for company reporting,…
Responsible production
Using Existing Reporting Systems to Report on Commitments
The power of collective action in Southeast Asian commodity sectors
…in Southeast Asia—including commitment-setting, traceability, certification, and supplier management systems. The webinars have also introduced the companies to the Accountability Framework’s Core Principles and the aligned reporting indicators from the…
The Relationship Between Voluntary Commitments and Applicable Law
…the necessary provisions to fully comply with international law. Core Principle 3.4 provides that, in addition to their voluntary commitments, companies must comply with applicable law and respect internationally recognized…
FAQs about the AFi
Smallholder Inclusion in Ethical Supply Chains
Guidance on how companies may facilitate smallholder inclusion in ethical supply chains through contextualized implementation of supply chain commitments This Operational Guidance elaborates on several of the Accountability Framework’s Core…
Will the Accountability Framework be updated or revised? If so, when and how will this happen?
…ethical supply chains contained within the Core Principles are based on a two-year consensus-building process and are strongly anchored in pre-existing global norms and precedents. Accordingly, these Core Principles are…