Study on the Fruits and Vegetable Supply Chains in the Philippines

Call for Expresssion of Interest: Research Consultancy for the Study on the Fruits & Vegetable Supply Chains in the Philippines and Responsible Business Conducts towards Economic and Social Upgrading.

The International Labor Organization through its Responsible Supply Chains in Asia Project is calling for interested consultants to carry out the above-stated research. The proposed study will explore and analyse good labour practices in the RBC or the CSR strategies in global supply chains, and how those practices contribute to both economic and social upgrading in specific fruits or vegetable supply chains in the Philippines. It will do so by a) generating an in-depth knowledge of employment and labour issues in selected supply chains of fruits and vegetable sector in the Philippines and their contribution to the competitiveness and productivity of the supply chains in question, and b) documenting relevant RBC/CSR cases in the country that are intended to achieve double/triple-bottom line approach to sustainability (environment, social and economic). Note that the concept of CSR referred here is the ones defined by the European Commission (EC) and ILO, and not the philanthropic one.