Hidden Homeworkers Project Partners
The Hidden Homeworkers project is a partnership between Traidcraft Exchange, Homeworkers Worldwide and HomeNet South Asia.
Co-Funded by the European Union
Homeworkers Worldwide
Homeworkers Worldwide’s role within Hidden Homeworkers is to lead activities with brands and multi-stakeholder initiatives in Europe and North America. We led the production of the Hidden Homeworkers Toolkit, to help companies improve transparency within homeworker supply chains, working in partnership with Cividep India and with support from Traidcraft India.
Our role involves raising brands' awareness of the likely presence of homeworkers within their textile, apparel and homewares supply chains, and supporting them to demonstrate their due diligence to safeguard homeworkers’ human rights and livelihoods. Together with our partners in South Asia, we are ready to partner with individual brands that have identified homeworking within specific supply chains, to support them to document working conditions and bring all stakeholders together, including the homeworkers, to find a way forward.
We also engage with multi-stakeholder initiatives to encourage them to include homeworkers and other informal workers within their activities as they bring key supply chain stakeholders together to improve working conditions within their sector.
HomeNet South Asia
HomeNet South Asia is a regional network for homebased worker organisation and its role in the Hidden Homeworkers Project has two facets. First, HNSA takes responsibility for leading, managing, coordinating and monitoring the project implemented by HNSA’s grassroot members in India, Nepal, and Pakistan. The organization provides guidance, capacity building, and technical expertise to its members towards the achievement of project goals, objectives and outcomes. Second, HNSA takes a lead in research studies and developing reports. It advocates for HBWs issues at the regional level and shares findings with its wider networks.
Traidcraft Exchange
Traidcraft Exchange is a pioneer fairtrade organisation that uses the power of trade to create lasting solutions to poverty and is leading on the overall project coordination, management and reporting of the Hidden Homeworker Programme, in addition to supporting partners, Homeworkers Worldwide and HomeNet South Asia, with brand and supplier engagement and development of research studies and reports on homeworking. One of the key aspects of Traidcraft’s role in the Hidden Homeworkers programme is to ensure effective communication between all partners, provides strategic guidance from time to time and facilitate collation and analysis of learnings from the project. Traidcraft also leads on MSI engagement in South Asia. In India, Traidcraft also manages cluster-level interventions in Ambur, Tamil Nadu, and is piloting possible solutions for improving homeworker livelihood in Kapas Hera (Near Udyog Vihar in ), Delhi-NCR.