Demonstrating and Improving Poverty Impacts project (DIPI)

Funded by the Ford Foundation, the Demonstrating and Improving Poverty Impacts Project (DIPI) seeks to understand the contribution that certification systems can make to poverty alleviation and pro-poor development.


Designing a blueprint for sustainable landscapes



Detecting forced and bonded labour through a rapid assessment tool



Detecting forced labour in ready-made garment supply chains



Developing a climate action toolkit for sugarcane and cotton producers



Developing a low carbon assurance module to validate greenhouse gas emissions



Developing a sustainability performance dashboard for the finance sector



Developing an interoperable book and claim registry ecosystem



Developing climate-related traceability systems for complex value chains



Developing common indicators for farm-level coffee sustainability



Driving good water stewardship at district level



Embedding worker-led approaches into human rights due diligence



Emerging Economies

ISEAL's work in China, Latin America and India


Enabling community-based monitoring with geospatial technology



Engaging with a credible standards system to preserve the luster of diamonds and its brand



Enhancing access to remedy for human rights violations in the botanicals sector



Enhancing due diligence multi-level reporting



Evaluating the environmental impacts of Improver Programme factories



Events sustainability



Expanding a blueprint for sustainable landscapes



Explore research

Supporting robust studies on the strengths and weaknesses of sustainability standards


Exploring the value of blockchain for standards

Best known as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, blockchain is set to revolutionise many areas of life and work over the coming years.


Facilitating rightsholder dialogue in human rights and environmental due diligence



FAQs: Global Sustainability Symposium 2024



Finding common ground in the mining, minerals, and metals sector