Project Overview
Over the next eighteen months, we
will work with the broad range of stakeholders mentioned above to
achieve the following:
2. Broadly-accepted standards of knowledge and skills for social auditors, including requirements for auditor competence.
3. Broad agreement among stakeholders on the process social auditors and their employers can follow to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and experience, such as through successful completion of certified courses and supervised audits.
4. A framework for professional accreditation for social auditors, likely based on the accreditation of multiple providers of certified courses.
Project Steps
1. Facilitation of on-line discussions regarding standards of knowledge and skills. The discussions will be focused through the use of specific questions designed to produce results upon which consensus can be reached. These discussions will build on learning and work done by previous monitor standards-focused dialogues, research projects, and initiatives and existing training and accreditation schemes (company-specific, multi-stakeholder, and multi-brand). A small number of in-person meetings will be organized as needed in various locations around the world to facilitate outreach and broad participation.
2. We will cooperate closely with institutions that already have efforts underway to promote cooperation among companies and others around social audits and those institutions that are reviewing their procedures for social auditor accreditation.
3. Achievement of consensus through review and discussion of information gathered during those conversations, with finalization by an independent experts’ committee.
4. Piloting of sample course modules and other means by which to teach and train to standards.
5. Facilitation of agreement about accreditation of course provider requirements, through a combination of on-line conversations and face-to-face meetings.
6. Development of a framework for one or more other institutions to create (not Verité and CREA) an on-going management of accreditation function and governance and maintenance of standards.