Today we are publishing Impactt’s report on the implementation Workers’ Welfare Standards (WWS) on sites being developed for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) appointed Impactt as External Compliance Monitor in April 2016. Our job has been to monitor compliance by contractors, subcontractors and the SC itself with the WWS, provide advice and ... Read more
Impactt turns 20!
Impactt turns 20 in 2017. We would like to invite you to our celebrations to share, chat, learn, teach, discuss and celebrate! Join the Impactt team, workers from the global supply chain, practitioners, experts and industry leaders at our one-day conference. Thursday 28 September 2017 We will: Look back at the last 20 years of innovative, ground-breaking and exciting projects ... Read more
Impactt: Celebrating 20 years of standing up for human rights
On this year’s Human Rights Day, we are celebrating nearly two decades of promoting human rights and improving labour conditions in global supply chains, and looking ahead to our 20th anniversary in 2017. In the past ten years alone, we have reached some 1.38m workers, and we aim to improve the lives of 6m workers by 2020. Our 50 strong team works across 17 countries, including the UK, China, ... Read more
Benefits for Business and Workers: proving the business case for social investment in the supply chain
Impactt’s award-winning Benefits for Business and Workers (BBW) programme now reaches some 280,000 garment workers in 188 factories across Bangladesh, India and Myanmar. It is supported by 17 major fashion brands and retailers, including Debenhams, Marks & Spencer, Ralph Lauren and Sainsbury’s. Focusing on HR and productivity training, the programme aims to prove that better pay and working ... Read more
