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Jim Clarken, Oxfam Ireland

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SDGs

A safe and just space for humanity

Oxfam’s Engagement with Business

Supporting / running companies engaging with existing companies

The captains of the food system

Chocolate and Women

• 190,000 pounds – or 86 tons – of chocolate are

consumed every second globally.

• 5.5 million people producing cocoa for major food and

beverages

• Rise in sales has not translated in a better life for

growers.

• Poverty and human rights abuses endemic. Three

companies source 40% of world’s cocoa – imagine what they could do to shift this!

How women fare

• Indonesia: Arti* (female, mid-30’s)
• More case studies:

https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.or g/files/equality-for-women-starts-with- chocolate-mb-260213.pdf

What companies (didn’t) know and (didn’t) do

• How many women work in their supply chain, where and how?
• Absence of women issues in only half of sustainability or corporate

social responsibility reporting.

• Only half of the companies have any projects in place focussing on

women economic equality and positive income growth.

• No commitment to eliminate discrimination of women throughout

their supply chain.

• Nestle, Mondelez, and Mars all earned failing scores for their

gender policies with scores of just 4, 2 and 1 out of 10 respectively.

• Neither Nestle, Mondelez nor Mars has signed onto the UN

Women’s Empowerment Principles

Making it matter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ua_Ny1XVw

Oxfam’s asks

• Step One: “Know and show” how women are treated in their value

chains.

• Step Two: Commit to transparently adopt a “plan of action” to

specifically increase opportunities for women and address inequalities in women’s pay and working conditions along the supply chain.

• Step Three: Engage with and influence other powerful and relevant

public and private actors to address gender inequality.

Turning 3!

Results in 3 Years

• In 2013, Mars, Mondelez, and Nestle committed to signing the

UN Women’s Empowerment Principles

• By March 2014, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestle, three of the

world’s largest purchasers of sugar committed to taking a “zero tolerance” approach to land grabs.

• In August 2014, General Mills and Kellogg agreed to

implement industry-leading measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its supply chains and press for meaningful political action to address climate change.

• Overall, all companies improved their policies over the life of

the first three years of the campaign with nine of the ten companies improving their score by at least 10 per cent.

https://www.oxfamamerica.org/static/media/files/coca-cola-sab-miller-poverty- footprint-dec-2011.pdf

The Garment Industry

Meanwhile, we try to fight the race to the bottom

How global business flipped the narrative

Challenges to Businesses

• Know, show, commit and act on the SDGs

comprehensively.

• Reducing inequality is a prerequisite to

stop populism and instability – and it should be everyone’s business

• Become an advocate for sustainability

Thank you