Resources
This page contains all resources referenced in the ISEAL Code, along with other Code formats, translations, and documents from the review and revision page.
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Advancing gender equality through sustainability systems: toolkit and good practices
This toolkit compiles curated resources and practical case studies relevant to a sustainability systems role in advancing gender equality.
This is relevant to schemes that are looking to advance their thinking and action on gender equality. It is most relevant to how a scheme assesses gender-related trends during strategy development (1.2), and gender-responsive monitoring (5.2).
Aligning and combining – what we’ve learned about metrics and data sharing
This report describes benefits and common challenges of aligning metrics and sharing data.
This is relevant to schemes seeking to work together to align metrics or share data. It is relevant to topics addressed throughout Section 4: Data and Information Management, but is especially relevant to steps schemes can take to access the data it needs (4.7).
Auditor competence working group summary
This resource describes strategies to identify and manage the threat of insufficient auditor competence.
This is relevant to how schemes manage threats to assurance integrity (2.5).
Chain of custody models and definitions
Definitions and descriptions of different chain of custody models used in sustainability systems.
This is relevant to schemes that incorporate supply chain traceability (8.4).
Effective wage auditing to advance living wage action
An overview of challenges and solutions relevant to effective wage auditing.
This is relevant to assessment methodology for wage auditing (7.3).
Learning brief: measurement and analysis approaches for equitable impact
Guidance on how sustainability systems can strengthen measurement and analysis approaches to embed equity more effectively into system design and implementation.
This is relevant to how schemes can assess whether there are differences in scheme effectiveness, reach, outcomes, and impacts by gender and/or other groupings of special relevance to the scheme (5.2).
Learning brief: monitoring performance
Data management recommendations to better support monitoring, evaluation and learning activities.
This is relevant to ensuring the data and information management system can inform monitoring, evaluation & learning activities (4.1).
Making credible living wage claims
This resource aims to help organisations make credible claims related to living wages.
This is relevant to those who make claims on living wages. It addresses topics relevant across the claims system (Section 8), but is especially relevant to the truthfulness of claims (8.2).
Remedying human rights abuses in supply chains: the role of sustainability standards
This learning report outlines how sustainability systems can play a role in remediation efforts for business related human rights harms.
This is relevant to how schemes decide their role in remediation (3.5, 3.7), which can also include whether remediation is relevant to a schemes role in supporting corporate due diligence (1.4).
Remote auditing good practices
Good practices for integrating remote auditing techniques into an assurance system.
This is relevant to schemes that use or are considering remote auditing practices within assurance (7.3). It also includes observations on risk-based approaches that may be helpful outside of a remote auditing context (7.4).
Sustainability Benchmarking Good Practice Guide
A good practice guide for developing and implementing benchmarks of voluntary sustainability systems.
This is most relevant to requirements about assessing the equivalence of standards and/or assurance (6.19, 7.11). This resource is also relevant to those interested in benchmarking schemes against the entirety of the ISEAL Code.
Sustainability Claims Good Practice Guide v2
This guide describes good practices for developing and managing policies or systems for controlling claims and labels relevant to a sustainability system.
This is relevant to all aspects of claims management, but is especially relevant to policies and procedures intended to ensure the claims system is implemented consistently (8.1).
Unlocking the value of your data: a practical guide for sustainability systems to turn data into actionable insights
A step-by-step guide on how to generate valuable and actionable insights from data.
This is relevant to all aspects of organisational data use, but is especially relevant to how a scheme gathers and maintains data and information so it can be used effectively (4.2).
Use of risk maps for child and forced labor in risk-based assurance processes
This case study describes how Rainforest Alliance tested prototypes of sectoral risk maps for child labour and forced labour in Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, and Honduras.
This is relevant to those interested in an example of risk-based assurance (7.4).
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