Interpretation is available in French and in Chinese.

Interpretation is available in French and in Chinese. Global supply chain shocks - such as the pandemic, armed conflicts, shipping disruptions, trade tensions and tariffs - have exposed vulnerabilities in traditional sourcing approaches, weakening supply chain resilience and heightening responsible business conduct (RBC) risks and adverse impacts. The session will examine current disruptions and trends in supply chain shifts and how due diligence can inform business decisions before and during supply chain shocks to navigate uncertainty while minimising the likelihood and severity of RBC risks and adverse impacts.

Organised by ACT (Action, Collaboration, Transformation). This session is led by partner organisations and may not reflect the views of the OECD. This session will explore how responsible purchasing practices can be operationalised to deliver tangible improvements in wages and working conditions. Despite brands' efforts on purchasing practices, workers often see little benefits, highlighting the need to link purchasing commitments to collective bargaining and the operationalisation of the 2024 ILO conclusions on wage setting in global supply chains. Bringing together employers, trade unions, global brands, and government representatives, the session will explore the implementation of the brand-supported collective bargaining agreements in Cambodia. It will showcase how to achieve wage improvements while ensuring competitiveness and productivity through collaborative work on resilient supply chains. Please note that this session will not be livestreamed.

Organised by the Graduate Institute Geneva (IHEID) and ILO-IFC Better Work. This session is led by partner organisations and may not reflect the views of the OECD. This session will showcase new research findings drawn from one of the most extensive longitudinal datasets on labour compliance in the apparel sector. The analysis merges Better Work’s global assessment data with enterprise-level information, operational records, and country-level governance and trade indicators. By examining factory, programme, and contextual factors shaping compliance over time, the research aims to generate fresh insights into what drives improvements and what challenges remain persistent. Please note that this session will not be livestreamed.

Organised by Shahi Exports, MAS Holdings and the Fashion Producer Collective. This session is led by partner organisations and may not reflect the views of the OECD. As the industry shifts from compliance to due diligence, manufacturers face a unique opportunity to take ownership of the process rather than defaulting to reactive approaches. To drive impact, suppliers must rethink their roles: agreeing on collective outcomes while empowering manufacturers to define the "how" based on their operating context. This session facilitates a candid, constructive dialogue between manufacturers and brands, exploring how shared governance and collaborative models between buyers and suppliers, and amidst suppliers themselves, drive equitable HREDD frameworks. Please note that this session will not be livestreamed. Please register for this session

Interpretation is available in Chinese. Estimates suggest that in some countries, up to 90% of the workforce in the sector operates informally - within small, unregistered factories, at home, or collecting and sorting waste for recycling. Despite their contributions to global production and recycling systems, these workers often remain invisible in companies’ due diligence efforts. This session will focus on due diligence in informal work settings beyond the factory floor, with particular attention to homeworkers and waste pickers. Panellists will discuss strategies for identifying informal workers and tailoring their due diligence to the varying likelihood and severity of adverse impacts compared to formal settings. The panellists will also share insights from their engagement with informal workers, as well as examples of national laws and frameworks aimed at improving protections and working conditions of informal workers.

Organised by the Open Supply Hub, Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions, Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union and Stand Up Movement Sri Lanka. This session is led by partner organisations and may not reflect the views of the OECD. Drawing on Open Supply Hub’s report 'Beyond Transparency: Building Safe, Accessible Digital Tools for Supply Chain Accountability', this session will highlight perspectives from grassroots trade unions and worker organisations in the Global South on the use of digital tools for supply chain accountability. The discussion will explore how these tools can be designed to prevent or mitigate risks that workers and their communities face when engaging with them. It will also examine how digital platforms can generate meaningful metrics to assess the impact of human rights and environmental due diligence legislation, ensuring that corporate accountability efforts translate into tangible improvements for workers on the ground. Please note that this session will not be livestreamed. Please register for this session

In this interactive workshop, participants will explore how gender-responsive, risk-based due diligence can be applied to a series of example scenarios. Working in facilitated break-out groups, participants will discuss 2–3 scenarios, answer guided questions and share their experiences. The session will deepen understanding of how to implement gender-responsive due diligence in day-to-day operations, encourage practical problem-solving and allow participants to reflect on lessons from their own contexts.

In this interactive workshop, participants will exchange perspectives on how governments can incentivise businesses to implement RBC standards. The session will explore examples of incentives used to date in the garment sector, the benefits and challenges to using incentives to promote RBC, and what has been broadly effective. It intends to provide practical advice for governments on how they can better leverage incentives across industries that work for people, planet, and society. Participation is by invitation only. If you would like to join the workshop, please contact: sarah.reso@oecd.org.

The Manufacturers Network for Due Diligence in the Garment & Footwear Sector is a network of garment and footwear manufacturers, providing them with a space to share experiences, build a common understanding of due diligence topics and work collaboratively. If you are a manufacturers' association and would like to join the event, please contact: julia.delvalle@oecd.org.

This breakfast brings together government officials from adhering and non-adhering governments, as well as representatives from intergovernmental organisations engaged in the garment and footwear sector and its supply chain. If you are a government official and would like to join the event, please contact: andrea.schill@oecd.org.

Organised by the Ethical Trading Initiative. This session is led by partner organisations and may not reflect the views of the OECD. Companies are faced with growing demands for transparency and reporting. However, identifying reliable, accessible and safe data that demonstrates whether freedom of association (FoA) and worker representation are genuinely respected in supply chains remains challenging. Without clear agreement on what constitutes meaningful FoA data for human rights due diligence and reporting, there is a risk that efforts become fragmented and compliance-driven. This interactive session aims to generate dialogue between participants to explore what meaningful FoA data should look like in practice, considering the importance of its relevance, reliability, and safety. By providing a platform for dialogue, the session will explore the perspectives of trade unions, brands, researchers and data platforms, discuss current practices and explore practical steps to strengthen the use of available FoA information in human rights due diligence. Please note that this session will not be livestreamed.

Organised by the FABRIC programme by the German Development Cooperation Agency (GIZ) Cambodia. This session is led by partner organisations and may not reflect the views of the OECD. Drawing on Cambodia's experiences as it approaches least-developed-country graduation, the session will explore how government-led labour reforms, private-sector and trade unions engagement, and targeted environmental, textile waste and occupational safety and health initiatives have been implemented in practice. Speakers from government, industry, worker representatives, brands, and development cooperation will discuss what has worked, where challenges remain, and how the collaboration amongst the tripartite constituents, the brands, and development partners can strengthen due diligence outcomes for workers, businesses, and buyers alike and highlight practical lessons for garment-producing countries facing similar economic and regulatory transitions. Please note that this session will not be livestreamed.

Interpretation is available in French and in Chinese. This session will explore how the growth of e-commerce and demand-driven business models is reshaping supply chain structures and dynamics across the sector. It will examine how these shifts have operationally enabled new production and sourcing models, including ultra-fast fashion, and how increasing expectations around speed and flexibility are transforming production cycles, supplier relationships, and sourcing practices. Panellists will discuss what these changes mean in practice for responsible business conduct (RBC), how their characteristics may challenge existing trade and regulatory frameworks, and what policy or collaborative approaches may be further needed. Speakers will be announced soon.

The garment and footwear sector accounts for around 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions, driven by its strong reliance on fossil fuels. With global demand continuing to rise, the sector increasingly acknowledges the urgent need for decarbonisation. Under the Sustainable Infrastructure Programme in Asia, the implementation of the OECD Framework for industry’s net-zero transition in Indonesia provides recommendations on financing instruments and enabling conditions to support the decarbonisation of the sector. Building on these outcomes, the session will explore different financing instruments and policy approaches to advance decarbonisation. It will examine strategies to facilitate the adoption of low-carbon technologies and discuss the role of brands in mobilising investment towards these solutions. See more information on the project

Interpretation is available in Chinese. Extreme heat, flooding, and water scarcity are already disrupting garment and footwear production in major production countries, with serious impacts for workers' health, livelihoods and safety, which, although increasingly visible, remain underreported and insufficiently addressed. This session build on a session in 2024 and invites participants to explore how due diligence can serve as a tool to prepare for inevitable disruptions and strengthen resilience across supply chains. Discussions will highlight areas that may require companies' attention, from operational adaptation and social protection systems to purchasing practices and buyer–supplier partnerships - drawing on lessons from examples of tested adaptation measures, factory-level action plans and national frameworks.

This workshop builds on last year’s session on responsible disengagement, aiming to deepen the discussion on how companies can approach disengagement. Discussants will set the scene with brief reflections and practical insights, after which participants will be invited to actively join the conversation by sharing their own learnings, questions, and examples of good practice.

The OECD convenes a dedicated roundtable bringing together enterprises, including brands, retailers, and manufacturers alongside trade union representative across garment and footwear supply chains to promote a common understanding of the OECD’s recommendations on meaningful engagement on labour rights across the due diligence process, as well as share examples of good practices. The Background note for the OECD Company-Union Roundtable on meaningful engagement in due diligence will serve as a reference to guide discussions. The note outlines expectations from OECD RBC standards, common challenges to effective engagement and presents practical measures to overcome them. Participation in by invitation only. If you are a brand, retailer, manufacturer, worker representative or trade union and would like to join the roundtable, please contact: julia.delvalle@oecd.org.

Just transition activities, such as the adoption of low-carbon technology and renewable sources of energy, are urgently needed to address resource scarcity in the sector but also to prevent crossing environmental thresholds. However, an abrupt transition or one not managed properly could increase risks and adverse impacts to businesses, workers and local communities. Businesses play a key role in developing and scaling technologies, skills and business models that support the transition as well as addressing social impacts associated with their transition activities. Speakers will be announced soon.

Companies in the sector understand the risks of only focusing their due diligence on their direct business relationships. However, many are unsure of how to deploy risk-based, scalable due diligence efforts in their upstream supply chains. This workshop will begin by exploring tangible examples of companies, including both brands and manufacturers, that have been able to make progress on upstream due diligence. Participants will be invited to brainstorm on common barriers to conduct due diligence further upstream and how to overcome them.