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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
IGEP-Foundation is an ISES 2020 certified body and is authorized to offer social and environmental consultancy and auditing services. IGEP has been actively working with the Foreign Trade Association of German Retailers (AVE), with the Foreign Trade Association (FTA) in Brussels, its Business Social Compliance Initiatives (BSCI) and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) among others, to help the Indian companies to achieve social and environmental compliance. These companies mainly supply to BSCI members as eg: Karstadt, Metro Group, C&A, Otto, P&C, H&M and Deichmann among others. So there is a growing demand for such certificates among Indian SME's. |
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IGEP accredited for ISO 9001
On 11 September 2009 IGEP Foundation has been accredited a certification body according to ISO 9001 and ISO / IEC 17021 by the ETCS (Eurotrust Corporate Services SA) Luxembourg. IGEP is now globally accepted as organisation that can provide certification accordingly. For IGEP this is an important step in the field of providing efficient and worldwide accepted quality improvement services to Indian exporters and manufacturers. So far, IGEP was known for the internationally recognized standard Rugmark as a synonym for products without child labour and for its comprehensive social and environmental standard ISES 2020. |
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IGEP now Representative Office of BSCI
In October 2009 the IGEP Foundation has been appointed to be the representative of BSCI (www.bsci-eu.org), the Business Social Compliance Initiative, in India. For BSCI and its 540 (approx.) members IGEP functions as the contact point, information centre and service provider in all questions and activities related to social compliance and auditing procedures. The major advantage of BSCI audits consists in the savings of time and money. All 540 members of BSCI accept an audit carried out for one member company. Additional individual audits are not necessary. |
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BSCI Activities of IGEP:
IGEP as the official representative of BSCI in India carries out the following activities:
- Regular Round Tables in India for information dissemination and delving on the issues related to social compliance.
- Dissemination of the Code of Conduct in regional languages. This is now one single code that is designed to fit both food and non-food products.
- Facilitating workers complaints through printing and distribution of complaint cards to the Indian auditing companies. Any worker can report a complaint regarding the supplier and it will be dealt with on case by case basis.
- Information about BSCI standards, possibilities for self-assessment, carrying out pre-audits for the companies that need guidance and advice how to plan and implement necessary changes before going for BSCI audits.
- In 2010 IGEP's main objective is to make companies working for the domestic market also socially compliant too. This is being carried out by systematically spreading information, providing services and strengthening cooperation with members, suppliers and all important stakeholders.
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