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Sustainable and equitable supply chains – advice for private companies

FEMNET offers comprehensive consulting services for sustainability and due diligence in the consumer goods industry. Navigate with our expertise through the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG) and the European Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).

Our USP – Unique added value through a civil society perspective

Thanks to our deep-rooted network and civil society background, we offer insights that private consulting companies do not have. We consult and support you in the development of networks and the integration of rights holders according to LkSG and CS3D and beyond.

Our training offer includes:

  • Needs-based orientation:
    Specific needs and challenges of your supply chain.
  • Knowledge building:
    Comprehensive training on legal obligations and human rights and environmental justice and beyond.
  • Risk assessment:
     Introduction of different approaches to risk assessment.
  • Complaint mechanisms:
    Designing effective complaint mechanisms.

Individual offers for sustainability along the supply chain

Start the world of responsibility and sustainability with our tailor-made offers. FEMNET has years of expertise in implementing supply chain due diligence, both for the private sector and the public sector.

Why FEMNET is different – and why it is good!

We do not rely on certifications, but on continuous improvements and the involvement of local stakeholders. Certifications alone are not enough to address complex human rights and environmental challenges.

  1. Real insights:
    Certifications are often based on snapshots and are not always trustworthy.
  2. Long-term improvements:
    Certifications rarely lead to structural improvements.
  3. Dynamic adjustment:
    Human rights and environmental justice require constant development.

Our approach

  • Process-oriented further education:
    Promoting long-term structural change.
  • Focus on local stakeholders:
    Focus on working conditions, in particular intersectional discrimination against women

Rules for businesses – rights for people

Our conviction becomes your competitive advantage! Become a pioneer in the consumer goods industry and help shape the future of the industry through education and accountability.

Step by step, we support you in fulfilling your reporting obligations:

  • Transparency and traceability:
    Support in the creation of comprehensible report formats.
  • Documentation and evidence:
    Assistance in the comprehensive documentation of all measures.
  • Best practices:
    Implement best practices to efficiently comply with reporting obligations.

We are committed to making sustainable changes and improvements in your supply chain and raising awareness of human rights and sustainability in your organization.

Our long-standing relationships with local communities and workers ensure reliable, trustworthy and transparent information.

Involvement of stakeholders: We encourage direct dialogue with the people affected by your supply chains. We are committed to bringing the concerns and perspectives of employees into the dialogue.

The contents

  1. Module: Introduction to the German LkSG and the European Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (‘CS3D’)
  2. Module: Declaration of Human Rights, CoC/Ethics
  3. Module: Risk Assessment - Minimum Requirements and Ambitious Approaches
  4. Module: Complaint mechanisms
  5. Module: Remedial actions

Modular and flexible

Individually bookable modules.

Duration: 2 hours each
Costs: 250 €

The providers:

Lavinia Muth, FEMNET member and FEMNET consultant has 15 years of experience in the field of sustainability in the fashion industry. She has conducted various advisory activities in compliance functions as well as as an auditor for social and environmental standards and has advised dealers, brands and producers worldwide for many years. She has been working as a freelancer for two years and is dedicated to various projects dealing with social justice issues in the consumer goods sector, while at the same time contributing to decarbonisation, circularity and anti-greenwashing for carefully selected customers.

FEMNET e.V. engages with political commitment, educational and advisory work as well as solidarity work for women in the producing countries of the global apparel industry. We are in close contact with partner organisations, especially in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Indonesia. In dialogue with politics and business, the association strives for the binding anchoring of corporate due diligence obligations. FEMNET is a pioneer in the implementation of eco-fair procurement procedures in public administration and has been advising municipalities on their textile tenders since 2015.

Would you like to know more about an individual consultation? Then contact us directly.

FEMNET e.V.
Kaiser-Friedrich-Str. 11
53113 Bonn
Telephone: +49 228 18 03 81 16
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