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STREAMS traceability and labor due diligence resource suite

This resource suite provides tools to help businesses track labor conditions and improve supply chain due diligence. It focuses on addressing risks like forced labor and promoting transparency and ethical practices.

About the resource suite

The Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) framework used in the STREAMS Resource Suite aligns with and builds on the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and other human rights due diligence touchstones.

The following STREAMS resources offer practical guidance on applying traceability to support steps of this framework and to advance labor due diligence goals.

By demonstrating how traceability systems can be leveraged to identify risks, mitigate harm, and improve transparency, these resources enable stakeholders to integrate traceability into their broader due diligence efforts.

These resources draw on insights from pilots conducted in cotton supply chains with core implementing partners Better Cotton and the Responsible Sourcing Network’s Yarn Ethically and Sustainably Sourced Initiative (RSN YESS), as well as from additional desk research, stakeholder engagement, and validation.

Resources

Embed: Aligning traceability with labor due diligence

Resource suite overview and introduction

This document provides a brief summary of key traceability concepts followed by an introduction to each resource in the STREAMS Traceability and Labor Due Diligence Resource Suite.

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STREAMS traceability terms glossary

This resource defines key traceability and labor due diligence terms used throughout the STREAMS tool suite and identifies additional glossaries recommended for further reading.

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How can traceability support labor due diligence? Guiding questions for design and implementation

This resource provides guidance for designing, evaluating, and/or selecting a labor rights-informed traceability system.

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Assess: Traceability and the identification of labor risk

Country-level labor saliency assessments and use of supply chain mapping data: A guide for agricultural supply chains

This resource explains how to use supply chain mapping and traceability information to conduct an initial assessment of potential labor risks. It also explains how to develop due diligence strategies for managing forced labor risk at the country level.

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Use of global trade data for labor saliency assessment: A guide for agricultural supply chains

This resource enables initial screening of potential risk in cotton apparel supply chains that may require enhanced traceability and due diligence, using publicly available data.

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Understanding forced labor and child labor risk, traceability, and due diligence: A self-guided tutorial for mid-tier Suppliers

A solid understanding of forced labor and child labor is essential for developing traceability and due diligence systems that effectively address labor risks. This resource is designed to improve mid-tier supply chain actors’ understanding of the concepts of forced labor and child labor.

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Cease, prevent and mitigate: Traceability technologies and labor risk management

Digital chain of custody platforms, labor due diligence, and responsible sourcing

This resource provides an explanation of digital chain of custody platforms and their application in supply chain traceability. It guides users in exploring how information collected by and communicated on digital chain of custody platforms can support labor due diligence.

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Additive tracers, labor due diligence, and responsible sourcing

This resource provides an explanation of additive tracers and their application in supply chain traceability. It guides users in exploring how information produced by additive tracers can provide additional verification of a product’s origins and support labor due diligence.

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Forensic isotopic testing, labor due diligence, and responsible sourcing

This resource describes isotope testing technology and discusses where it fits in labor due diligence frameworks. It explores applications for responsible sourcing of cotton and other agricultural products and offers recommendations for further development of the technology for labor due diligence.

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Supply chain mapping and transparency platforms, labor due diligence, and responsible sourcing

This resource describes supply chain mapping and transparency platforms and their application in supply chain traceability. It guides users in exploring how information collected through mapping and transparency platforms can support labor due diligence and risk assessment.

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For more information on traceability and labor due diligence, get in touch.

Erin Klett

Lead, Research and Innovation

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