TIB clarifies
A report, headlined—TI to help ensure transparency in garment sector—published on B1 on Monday may create an impression that Garments Industries Transparency Initiative (GITI) is an initiative of Transparency International (TI).
Although TI and TI-Bangladesh are among many other institutions and individuals involved in the process to take this initiative forward, GITI was initiated in 2013 by Prof Dr Peter Eigen, and facilitated by HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform of Berlin, TIB said in a statement.
GITI draws upon the experiences and lessons of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, co-founded by Dr Eigen who is also the founder of TI, according to the statement.
GITI is conceived a multi-stakeholder multi-country initiative that aims at promoting transparency as a means to improve labour conditions in the global garment supply chain.
It seeks to create a framework for collective actions for greater transparency in the garment sector involving governments, producers and buyers, trade unions and civil society at both national and international levels.
GITI is currently in an exploratory stage, and further progress will depend on the interest and willingness of various stakeholders to take it forward in an incremental approach on the basis of mutually agreeable common minimum objectives and standards.
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