SYSTEM SOCIAL EQUITY AND COHESION
IMPROVE EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- Avoid/eliminate forced and underage work.
- Avoid/eliminate all forms of discrimination in the workplace.
- Provide freedom of association and right to collective negotiation.
- Improve the health and safety of workers.
- Define and adopt tools, standards and certification of social responsibility for the enterprises/organizations.
- Guarantee that wages are fair and adequate to the number of working hours (in the whole value chain).
- Guarantee adequate number of working hours.
- Offer a workplace that is adequate to employees’ capacities and needs.
- Guarantee continuous development and training for workers.
- Avoid alienation and keep employees engaged and ambitious
- Involve workers/employers in decision making processes.
- Create a working climate that takes into consideration innovations suggested by workers.
- Collaborate with colleagues to offer good working conditions in the whole value chain.
IMPROVE EQUITY AND JUSTICE IN RELATION TO STAKEHOLDERS
- Support and involve partners in low and middle-income contexts.
- Support and involve partners active in social activities.
- Involve organizations engaged in the diffusion of social equity standards.
- Promote and facilitate knowledge exchange between partners and stakeholders.
- Offer stakeholders adequate information flow.
- Increase stakeholders’ productive capacity.
- Join and support fair trade activities/development aid activities.
- Promote cooperation and projects in low and middle-income contexts.
- Consider stakeholders’ expectations and address suppliers/subcontractors needs and interests.
- Involve supplier, subcontractors and sub-suppliers in the design (and decision making) processes.
- Require other companies that take part in the value chain to safeguard working conditions as well as health and safety.
- Promote/require the adoption of social certification systems by suppliers, subcontractors and sub-suppliers.
- Define and/or adopt standards and tools to certify companies’ social and ethical practises.
- Offer products and services which guarantee the health and safety of clients/final users
- Promote products and services that improve health and safety and reduce discrimination and marginalisation
- Verify that the offer doesn’t have any rebound effects
- Promote and enhance the quality and accessibility of common goods
- Support democratic structures through the system to be offered
ENABLING AND PROMOTING REPONSIBLE AND SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION
- Enhance the social sustainability of all users. Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International – FLO
- Complement the product-service systems offer with the information and/or learning experiences to educate the client/end-user on sustainable behaviour and choices. Experience diary farm biodiversity – Cream o’Galloway
- Offer product service system that enable clients/end-user to participate responsibly/sustainably. Nomad garden – Association Quartier Saint Bernard; Promoting the culture of in-city cycling – +BC
- Involve the client/enduser in the production/ implementation /customisation of their product-service system to encourage more responsible/sustainable consumption and behaviour. Solar panels self-building courses – Tattle group
- Involve the client/end-user in the design/decision process of their own product-service system to encourage responsible/sustainable consumption and behaviour. Learn to build own passive houses – Earthship
- Adopt standards to increase the transparency of supply chains, underlining its social sustainability.
FAVOUR AND INTEGRATE LOW-INCOME, WEAKER AND MARGINALIZED
- Offer the access rather than mere product ownership to extend the access even to low-income final users. The toy libraries association – TLASA; Furniture on rent – Furlenco; Workplace sharing – Regus.
- Complement the product offer with the all-inclusive running costs (e.g. maintenance, repairs, upgrade, etc.) to avoid their interruption of use for low-income final users. Crank handle radio – Baygen
- Develop products or services that are accessible for free or at a cost that can be afforded even by low-income people. Solar Powered Digital Village Schools – Samsung; Healthcare services to rural communities – DISHA; Wikipedia open encyclopedia – Wikimedia
- Diversify the offer and include options with higher and lower costs so that the access can be extended.
- Develop systems with shared with economic property to increase their accessibility.
- Develop systems which promote labour services with equitable access/exchange. Timebanking – Banca del Tempo; Local municipal time bank – Passa-tempo
- Develop systems e.g cooperatives) which involve product sharing and cost reductions. Diary products cooperative organisation – AMUL; Wine Cooperative – COVIAL, Private sharing travel service – Viavai; Car pooling platform – BlaBlaCar.
- Develop systems which allow easier access to credit (for companies). Microcredit system – Grameen Bank; Ethic bank – Banca etica.
- Involve weaker people and improve their quality-of-life conditions. Addiction recovery support – Coach House Trust; Garden rent to retired people – Parco Nord Milan; Co-housing for over 55s – Acquarius.
- Involve and improve the conditions of marginalised persons offering them qualifying jobs which enhance their competences. Job and Action Association – Tyo and Toiminta; Donated bikes repairs and resells – Bicycle Flea Market.
- Involve and facilitate introducing foreigners into the social context/space. Italian courses for foreigners – Millevoci
EMPOWER AND ENHANCE LOCAL RESOURCES
- Offer the access rather than the ownership of equipment to extend the access even to low and middle-income local entrepreneurs.
- Complement the equipment offer with all-inclusive services covering running costs (e.g. maintenance, repairs, upgrade, etc.) to avoid the interruption of use by low and middle-income local entrepreneurs.
- Offer the access rather than the ownership of distributed/decentralised production systems (energy generation, food production, water management, manufacturing, software development, information/knowledge generation, design) to extend the access even to low and middle-income local entrepreneurs. Solidarity purchase group – Lambrate GAS; Adopt a sheep, get farming food – La Porta dei Parchi; Production and sale of biologic goods – Ecopantry; Organic local food delivered to home – Van Link Group; Open source software – Mozilla
- Complement offers for distributed/ decentralised production systems (energy generation, food production, water management, manufacturing, software development, information/knowledge generation, design) with all-inclusive running cost (e.g. maintenance, repairs, upgrade, etc.) to avoid the interruption of use by low and middle-income local enterpreneur/organisation.
- Reinforce the role of the local economy creating services in the same place where they will be used. Adopt a sheep, get farming food – La Porta dei Parchi
- Favour any development that enhances the local capacities for collaborated production of goods that contribute to the common goods and external economies. Local manufacturing of global furniture design – OpenDesk
- Renew/ regenerate urban artefacts that have fallen into disuse (involving the weak and marginalised). Fair rents/house leasing – DarCasa onlus
- Renew/ regenerate industrial, domestic and urban dismissed products and materials. Clearing out and scraps recovery – Cooperative Di mano in mano; Open project to recycle plastic – Precious plastic.
- Adopt/ promote system using regenerated natural, local resources.
- Respect/ enhance peculiar locally-based activities enterprises.
- Respect and encourage cultural identities and diversities.
IMPROVE SOCIAL COHESION
- Promote products, spaces, infrastructures, knowledge, services sharing system that enable neighbourhood social integration. Ecological and shared city district – Vauban; Nomad garden – Association Quartier Saint Bernard; Car pooling platform – BlaBlaCar
- Promote systems of sharing common goods and their maintenance within neighbourhoods. Solar panels self-building courses – Tattle group
- Promote co-housing systems. Co-housing for over 55s – Acquarius
- Promote systems enabling inhabitants in common goods co-design.
- Promote products, spaces, infrastructures, knowledge, services sharing system, enabling social integration between generations.
- Promote products, spaces, infrastructures, knowledge, services sharing system, enabling gender integration.
- Promote products, spaces, infrastructures, knowledge, services sharing system, enabling social integration between different cultures Italian courses for foreigners – Millevoci