The "Sustainable supply chains to build back better" (SSCBBB) is a joint intervention co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) and aims to promote decent work in global supply chains of key importance to the EU. This includes the development of new knowledge, tools, guidance, policy advice, technical assistance and training to address decent work challenges and opportunities in five sectors: coffee, electronics, fisheries, rubber gloves and textiles.
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Project Background                        

The effects of the COVID-19 crisis are expected to affect the global economy for years to come. In addition to containing the virus and saving lives, governments, employers and their associations, workers and their organizations and enterprises of all sizes in all countries are focused on weathering the crisis and ensuring minimal job losses and business and industry survival.
At the same time, governments, employers and workers in all sectors of the economy and across the globe are calling for decent work to be part of the response to the pandemic. The need for fairer, more resilient and sustainable global supply chains is part of national, regional and global discussions on how the world of work can build back better.
With the support of the European Commission for this Action entitled “Sustainable supply chains to build back better”, the ILO will promote decent work global supply chains of key importance to the EU. It will engage with its constituents and key stakeholders in seizing this moment to assert the importance of decent work to fairer, more resilient and sustainable global supply chains and to the social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.

Project Objectives

The aims of the project are:
  1. to promote decent work in global supply chains as key to the global social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis – building back better;
  2. to engage stakeholders and promote social dialogue all along the supply chain to keep decent work principles at the forefront and explore possibilities for a “new normal” during and after COVID-19 recovery – stakeholder engagement;
  3. to support government, employer, worker and other stakeholder action to make decent work a defining framework of the post-COVID era – stakeholder actions.

Project Outcomes

The Action comprises three closely inter-related modules: