Cividep-India encourages collaborative efforts and believes in working in synergy with like minded activists and organisations. We are a part of many networks locally and internationally which helps us to draw from experiences and resources of other organisations and to contribute in a concerted manner.

Given the nature of global trade, organisations like us heavily depend and contribute to networks working in different parts of the world to conduct research, support campaigns and share issues and concerns in their fields of work.

Garment Sector:

Clean Clothes Campaign

The Clean Clothes Campaign is an alliance of organisations in 13 European countries and is dedicated to improving working conditions and supporting the empowerment of workers in the global garment and sportswear industries. Members include trade unions and NGOs covering a broad spectrum of perspectives and interests, such as women’s rights, consumer advocacy and poverty reduction. Since 1989, the CCC has worked to help ensure that the fundamental rights of workers are respected.  It educates and mobilises consumers, lobbies with companies and governments, and offers direct solidarity support to workers.

Asia Floor Wage Campaign

Asia Floor Wage Campaign in the garment sector is an emerging collaborative effort to raise the wage level of garment workers all over Asia. The India committee of the campaign includes the New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI), Jobs with Justice (JwJ), Centre for Education and Communication (CEC), Fedina, SAVE, Munnade, Sthree Jagruthi Samithi and Cividep.

Play Fair Olympics

Cividep-India participated in the Play Fair at Olympics 2004 Campaign - one of the biggest ever mobilisations against abusive labour conditions. This demanded better working conditions in the sportswear and garment industry during the 2004 Athens Olympics. The campaign was led by Oxfam-International, Global Unions and the Clean Clothes Campaign. Cividep, in association with the South India Coalition for the Rights of Garment Workers, organised a workers’ exchange programme during the campaign.

Electronics Sector:

Good Electronics

Good Electronics is a network of organisations trying to improve corporate & public policy and practice in the electronics industry. It seeks to strengthen & stimulate civil society organizations and workers worldwide in their actions to improve human rights and environmental conditions in the electronics industry, with a focus on workers and grassroots organizations in production countries.

makeITfair

makeITfair is a European project focusing on the electronics industry, especially on consumer electronics like mobile phones, laptops and MP3 players. This project lets young people across Europe know about the labour abuses and environmental problems that are going on right now around the world – just to satisfy their demand for the latest electronic gadgets. It also encourages young people to get active to improve the situation and hold big brand electronics companies to account – asking them to take responsibility for the labour abuses and environmental damage at the bottom of their supply chain.

Others…

OECD Watch

Cividep is a Coordination Committee member of OECD Watch, a network that serves to strengthen cooperation between civil society organisations worldwide, built capacity and promote a corporate accountability framework in the interest of sustainability and poverty eradication. The purpose of OECD Watch is to test the effectiveness of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and to inform the wider NGO community about policies and activities of the OECD’s Investment Committee.

National Alliance for People’s Movement

NAPM is a collective of groups and movements working to bring  people-oriented development model to the center-stage of politics and public life. It is a network of over two hundred people’s movements in India working for social and economic justice.

Forum Against Free Trade Agreements

Forum Against FTAs is a coming together of trade unions, peoples’ movements and civil society organizations to understand the critical issues involved such agreements and work against its negative impact on people in India. The forum was formed in a strategy meeting on EU India FTA in September 21st 2008 in New Delhi. Centre for Education and Communication (CEC) is the secretariat of the Forum. The Forum’s objective it to nsure that FTAs do not undermine the rights of the people – farmers, workers, women, dalits, adivasis, patients, small and medium enterprises, cooperatives and hawkers. It seeks to critically Examine India’s FTAs and its impact on livelihood rights, labour rights, access to health care and the government’s policy space and strengthen and expand the civil society network to monitor India’s FTAs.

New Trade Union Initiative

Cividep is among fraternal organisation of the New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI), which seeks to unite the trade union movement in India on the basis of independence from Government, employers and political parties.