The Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) is a think tank that works to make human rights part of everyday business by shaping policy, advancing practice, and strengthening accountability across all business sectors. The IHRB Migrant Workers Programme developed the Dhaka Principles for Migration with Dignity to provide a clear framework for understanding and addressing the challenges faced by migrant workers in all sectors and locations throughout the migration cycle.

Over the last few years, Responsible Recruitment of migrant workers has featured strongly on the radar of business and governments. Since 2016, the IHRB’s Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment (LGRR) has played a significant role in highlighting the issue of responsible recruitment and is one of the leading initiatives working towards the eradication of worker-paid recruitment fees. The Group consists of 16 international brands supported by three civil society organisations, and the ILO and IOM, who use their collective leverage to promote safe and responsible recruitment practices globally. A key premise upon which the Group is founded, ‘The Employer Pays Principle’ – No worker should pay for a job, the costs of recruitment should be borne, not by the worker but by the employer – is now widely referenced by business, governments, trade unions, civil society, and international organisations.

AIM-Progress is a global forum of leading Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturers and common suppliers, assembled to enable and promote responsible sourcing practices and sustainable supply chains. Their members work together to co-create solutions and share best practices to drive positive impact quickly, efficiently, and at scale within the branded consumer goods supply chain. Their key objective is to build capacity so that member organisations and their suppliers have the knowledge, confidence, and ability to develop and execute robust responsible sourcing programmes. AIM-Progress and its individual member companies are working to promote Responsible  Recruitment in global supply chains. Challenging the payment of worker  recruitment fees and related costs is a key strategy and focus for 2023.

Stronger Together is an impact driven, not for profit organisation that provides organisations with practical training, resources, business services and collaborative programmes in order to achieve its vision of a world where all workers are recruited responsibly and have fair work, free from exploitation.

Stronger Together works across three continents and within multiple sectors, often in collaboration with strategic sector and in-country partners. It provides practical, innovative solutions, based on established international standards and methodologies, to drive effective human rights due diligence in global supply chains – with a particular focus on responsible recruitment, fair work and tackling labour exploitation.

Stronger Together mobilises and facilitates collaboration amongst multi-stakeholders to achieve systemic change at scale and plays an active role in mediating dialogue on issues that require a collaborative response such as progress on the Employer Pays Principle.