Future Meetings

GSCP Fall 2010 General Meeting - New York, 1 - 2 September 2010

Objectives

The GSCP runs bi-annual General Meetings. These meetings are open to all Task Force members, Advisory Board members as well as companies that are interested in learning more about the Programme and in exchanging knowledge and best practices.
Since September 2008, the GSCP has also opened the first day of its General Meetings to other stakeholders to allow them, along with businesses, to share their expectations and concerns on the Programme’s current work and next steps. The aim is:

Stakeholders are any person, group or organisation with an interest in, or who may be affected by, the activities of the GSCP. These include Trade Unions, Non Governmental Organisations, International Organisations, Initiatives, Trade Associations, Service Providers and Certification Bodies.

Participation in General Meetings is by invitation only.

Former meetings

GSCP Fall 2009 General Meeting - San Francisco, 19 - 20 October 2009

On the first day of the meeting, members of GSCP Expert Working Groups reported on the activity of the Expert Working Groups on:
- Audit Process and Methodology
- Auditor Competence
- Environmental Module and
- Equivalence Process.
This session helped ensuring that expectations of all interested parties are integrated into the GSCP working plan. The open discussion following each presentation helped spell out priorities and identifying potential concerns.

GSCP Spring 2009 General Meeting - Paris, May 2009

On the first day of the meeting, stakeholders and company representatives had the opportunity to share their expectations and concerns on four of the GSCP’s current and future steps:
- Remediation (with a specific focus on Child Labour),
- Auditor Competence,
- Data Sharing,
- Equivalence Process.
A workshop on Remediation took place on the second day, during which a series of brief presentations were given by company representatives followed by discussions. Topics discussed were:

• ‘The Cultivar Project’ presented by George Jaksch, Chiquita
• ‘Worker hotlines: lessons from operating grievance procedure mechanisms in Supply Chains’ presented by Stephen Frost, CSR Asia
• ‘How HP tackles emissions in Supply Chains’, presented by Bonnie Nixon, Hewlett Packard
• ‘Child labour Remediation in India’ presented by Greg Priest, IKEA
• 'CSR in Primary Production’ presented by Johann Züblin, Migros
• ‘Purchasing Practices: Small and practical changes to help suppliers’ presented by Terry Babbs, Tesco
• ‘Wal-Mart Supplier Development Program’ presented by Rajan Kamalanathan, Wal-Mart

GSCP Fall 2008 General Meeting - September 2008, San Francisco

On the first day of the meeting, stakeholders and company representatives had the opportunity to share their expectations and concerns on all of GSCP’s current and next steps.
A workshop on Remediation took place on the second day, during which a series of brief presentations were given by company representatives followed by discussions. Topics discussed were:

Participating companies met in Paris to further discuss and focus on two topics: Buying Practices and Working Hours.

Participating companies developed 9 potential collaborative actions around 6 key topics: Factory Management Practices, Buying Practices, Living wage, Working Hours, Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining and Child Labour.