Digital Resource Platform
The SheSupplies resource platform is a comprehensive collection of practical tools, publications, and best practices compiled from a range of highly respected and expert authorities, organizations, and industry leaders. Each resource on the platform is carefully curated and has a clear gender lens, providing valuable guidance and support to organizations on their journey to enhance gender equality in their supply chain through their sourcing and procurement practices.
The platform’s resources cover a broad range of topics, including gender-responsive procurement policies and practices, risk assessments, monitoring and evaluation frameworks, capacity building, and partnership brokering, among others. By leveraging these resources, organizations can gain insights and practical guidance from leading experts, empowering them to implement more socially sustainable and gender-inclusive supply chains.
About the Resource Platform
Publications
How are women impacted in global supply chains, and how does that affect your business? Here we aim to provide information about what the potential problems for women are in sourcing and procurement and why caring about these issues will not only benefit women, but also your business. From food, farming, textiles, technology and more there are many ways in which women can be impacted within a supply chain. We have selected publications that will provide clarity as to how women could be impacted, with issues like gender based discrimination, harassment, the gender pay gap, lack of access to resources, culturally based discrimination and fewer opportunities given than their male counterparts. Understanding gender based inequality is a key first step to making effective change.
Tools
There are a multitude of strategies and actions that can be taken in order to improve gender equality within your supply chain. Here we have compiled information on how to effectively and efficiently implement real change within your business structure for the better. Furthermore we have accumulated a set of tools based on each of the six steps of the OECD Due Diligence Guidelines, to provide practical guidance on the next step for gender focussed procurement in your business.
Case Studies
We want to go beyond the theoretical and provide evidence to support the need for a gendered focus in supply chains. Here are some statistics, case studies and reports that give real perspective to the issues faced by women in sourcing and procurement and how business can improve when these issues are addressed. Spanning different industries and nations, here is qualitative and quantitative data focussing on gender in supply chains.
All Resources
World Economic Forum – Global Gender Gap Report 2020
An extensively detailed report presented by the World Economic Forum surrounding the gender gaps in various forms, industries and countries.
World Benchmarking Alliance – Gender Benchmark 2021: Insights Report
Report of key findings in various global companies, these findings include a lack of ambition for transformative change, a lack of preparation for pandemic threats, more work needed in supply chains, and a lack of gender data.
Publications
Workplace Gender Equality Agency – Gender equitable procurement and supply chains
This Australian report highlights benefits of gender equitable procurement, and provides helpful ways to improve.
Women Win – Gender Responsive Due Diligence: What is the Future?
A case for gender responsive due diligence in the Dutch market.
Tools
Women Win – Gender Responsive Procurement Playbook
Based on the Dutch market, this report highlights the importance of sourcing from women owned businesses, evaluating the gender policies of a supplier and requiring women led teams.
United State’s Agency for International Development (USAID) – Engendering Industries: Organizational Goal Setting for Gender Equality and Inclusion
Document with goal setting guidelines: long-term, medium-term, short-term. Some policy suggestions such as sexual harassment training, flexible work schedules, gender inclusive recruitment.
United State’s Agency for International Development (USAID) – Engendering Industries: Setting Strategic Gender Equality Targets
Target setting tool based on SMART princples: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound.
OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct
The OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct is a globally recognised publication which outlines how to enact responsible business conduct. Within this publication are six specific steps outlining the due diligence process in order to minimize and eliminate potential or actual risk within your supply chain. We, at SheSupplies, follow the six step format for due diligence and have provided specific documents that pertain to each of the six steps. Practical advice ranging from policy recommendations, human rights assessments, risk management roadmaps, questionnaires, training programmes, instruction manuals and grievance mechanism guides and more. You can follow these tools through the six steps to align your business practices with the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct.
Step 1
Embed responsible business conduct into policies and management systems
Step 2
Identify and assess actual and potential adverse impacts associated with the enterprises operations, products or services
Step 3
Cease, prevent and mitigate adverse impacts
Step 4
Track implementation and results
Step 5
Communicate how impacts are addressed
Step 6
Provide for or cooperate in remediation when appropriate
Case Studies
World Economic Forum – Global Gender Gap Report 2020
An extensively detailed report presented by the World Economic Forum surrounding the gender gaps in various forms, industries and countries.
World Benchmarking Alliance – Gender Benchmark 2021: Insights Report
Report of key findings in various global companies, these findings include a lack of ambition for transformative change, a lack of preparation for pandemic threats, more work needed in supply chains, and a lack of gender data.
Women’s Empowerment Principle’s (WEPs) – A snapshot of 350 companies in the G7
A data report based on 7 gender focussed key principles: corporate leadership, fair and non-discriminatory treatment, health and safety, promotion of education and training, positive enterprise and supply chain development, community initiatives and measuring and...
United Nations Women (UN Women) – Building Gender Responsive Procurement: Lessons from Research and Practicement
Report analysing findings from gender-responsive procurment implemented practices in in a range of nations, mostly in Africa. Highlighting key problems and future recommendations such as institutionalising a rights based approach, with an intersectional lens to...
UN Women – Empowering Women through Public Procurement and Enabling Inclusive Growth
This report summarises some of the ways in which women are disadvantaged within public procurement, such as limited access to finance and gender biases and how to identify female led businesses, whilst also tracking improvement in gender commitment.
Root Capital – Women in Agriculture Initiative
Annual report for 2021 showing progress towards gender equality in agriculture.
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