The &Wider Podcast

For the past 8 years, Noura has been working tirelessly as a sustainability and living wage expert. She has been a board adviser for the Living Income Community of Practice. She has also been chair and founding member of the Global Living Wage coalition, and currently on the advisory board for the True and Fair Pricing for Sustainable Products. We were so honoured to speak with Noura on due diligence for businesses, and what retailers, brands and their suppliers can practically do to prepare for this future?

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If food is at the basis for human dignity, then surely access to sufficient and nutritious food for those how who wish to have it, must be an indictor of how well the economy is structured?

In this episode, we speak to Mervyn Abrahams from the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity Group about their Household Affordability Index, which tracks how much a basket of food that women in low income households buy costs, and why they felt it was needed.

Kunera Moore from Rainforest Alliance talks to &Wider about child labour, how the COVID pandemic has affected child labour globally, and six steps to how brands can approach child labour in their supply chains.

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Gathering insight about social sustainability and working conditions along supply chains sometimes involves having to work with written or form-based documentation. Such insight needs to be digitised to unlock it as a data source. In this next podcast we speak to Alexis Litvine from Osiris about how their technological innovation is making a special contribution to addressing this challenge.

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On our first episode, we focus on the scrap steel industry and speak to Frank Miller from Track Record Global on the greatest challenges to transforming scrap steel supply chain globally, and his vision to enabling that transparency.

In the wave of companies now open to trial digital tools for remote supply chain monitoring, it can be complicated to know where to start, and where a tool such as Direct Worker Reporting (DWR) can fit into your responsible sourcing strategy. In this short post, we run through three major ways you can incorporate Direct Worker Reporting to your responsible sourcing programme for maximum impact and value.