Certification & Ratings Collaboration: How Member Programs Address Social Issues


1	Last updated August 2023
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3	Principle	Component	Performance Indicator (PI)		Relevant International And Multilateral Laws, Policies, And Guidance	ASC	FTUSA	MSC	MBA	SFP

4	1 Protect human rights, dignity and access to resources	1.1 Human and labor rights	1.1.1	Abuse and harassment	ILO Violence and Harassment Convention (C190) Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (FAO SSF Guidelines) 6.9. 6.15 (Children)	Farm and Feed Standards	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards	Rules on Unacceptable Conduct	Seafood Social Risk Tool
5			1.1.2a	Human trafficking & forced labor	ILO Forced Labor Convention (C29) and Abolition of Forced Labor Convention (C105)	Farm and Feed Standards	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards	MSC Fisheries Standard Labour Eligibility Requirements	Seafood Social Risk Tool
6			1.1.2b	Debt bondage	ILO Forced Labor Convention (C29) and Abolition of Forced Labor Convention (C105); Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, 1956	Farm and Feed Standards	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards	Labour Eligibility Requirements	Analysis of the impact of intermediaries in seafood supply chains with ILO (Second paper in progress with FAO and Tufts University)	Supporting small-scale fishers
7			1.1.3	Child labor	ILO Minimum Age Convention (C138) and Worst Forms of Child Labor Convention (C182); Work in Fishing Convention (C188)	Farm and Feed Standards	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards	Labour Eligibility Requirements	Seafood Social Risk Tool
8			1.1.4	Freedom of association and collective bargaining	ILO Freedom of Association and Protection to the Right to Organize Convention (C87), Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention (C98), and Collective Bargaining Convention (C154)	Farm and Feed Standards	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards		Seafood Social Risk Tool
9			1.1.5	Earnings and benefits	ILO Equal Remuneration Convention (C100) and Work in Fishing Convention (C188)	Farm and Feed Standards, membership of Global Living Wage Coalition, living wage project	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards		Socio-economic baseline studies in progress in India, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia	Supporting small-scale fishers
10			1.1.6	Adequate rest	ILO Work in Fishing Convention (C188)	Farm and Feed Standards	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards
11			1.1.7a	Access to basic services for worker housing/live-aboard vessels	ILO Work in Fishing Convention (C188); International Observer Bill of Rights and Codes of Conduct for Responsible Observer Programmes (IOBR) 2013	Farm and Feed Standards	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards		Seafood Social Risk Tool
12			1.1.7b	Access to basic services for small-scale fishing communities	IOBR 2013: FAO SSF Guidelines 6.2		Community Development Funds		Analysis of the impact of intermediaries in seafood supply chains with ILO (Second paper in progress with FAO and Tufts University)	Supporting small-scale fishers
13			1.1.8	Occupational safety	ILO Work in Fishing Convention (C188)	Farm and Feed Standards	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards		Seafood Social Risk Tool
14			1.1.9	Medical response	ILO Work in Fishing Convention (C188)	Farm and Feed Standards	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards
15		1.2 Access Rights	1.2.1	Customary resource use rights	UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007; ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (C169)	Farm and Feed Standards, Free, Prior and Informed Consent project (in development)		Requirement for mechanism to observe established riights of people dependent on fishing for food or livelihood - MSC Fisheries Standard, Principle 3		Supporting small-scale fishers
16		1.2 Access Rights	1.2.2	Corporate responsibility and transparency	UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights 2011	Farm and Feed Standards	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards		Seafood Social Risk Tool; Partnership Assurance Model improvement projects; Social Sustainability Advisory Group; Socio-economic baseline studies in progress in India, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia
17	2 Ensure equality and equitable opportunity to benefit	2.1 Equality	2.1.1	Grievance reporting and access to remedy	UN Guiding Principles on Businesses and Human Rights, Articles 25-31; IOBR 2013	Farm and Feed Standards, Worker Voice project (in development)	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards	Currently subject of research for future labour policy review
18		2.1 Equality	2.1.2	Stakeholder participation and collaborative management	FAO SSF Guidelines 5.15, 5.17, 5.18	Farm and Feed Standards	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards	Fisheries Certification Process provides opportunities for meaningful stakeholder consultation Requirement in the Fishery Standard for the management system to have effective consultation process and to facilitate engagement of all interested and affected parties	Socio-economic baseline studies in progress in India, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia	Supporting small-scale fishers
19		2.2 Equity	2.2.1	Equitable opportunity to benefit	FAO SSF Guidelines 6.8; 7.8; 7.10; 12.2	Farm and Feed Standards	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards		Socio-economic baseline studies in progress in India, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia	Supporting small-scale fishers
20		2.2 Equity	2.2.2	Discrimination	ILO Equal Remuneration Convention (C100) and Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (No.111)	Farm and Feed Standards	Fisheries and Agriculture Standards		Seafood Social Risk Tool
21	3 Improve food, nutrition, and livelihood security	3.1 Food and nutrition security	3.1.1a	Food and nutrition security impacts of industrial fishing	FAO SSF Guidelines 5.2; 5.8; 7.8; 11.5					Supporting small-scale fishers
22			3.1.1b	Food and nutrition security for small-scale fishing communities	FAO SSF Guidelines 5.2; 5.8; 7.8; 9.2; 10.1; 11.5; 11.9; 13.4;					Supporting small-scale fishers
23			3.1.2	Healthcare	FAO SSF Guidelines 6.2; 6.12; 6.17;		Fisheries and Agriculture Standards; Community Development Funds			Supporting small-scale fishers
24			3.1.3	Education	FAO SSF Guidelines 6.2; 6.14; 6.15		Fisheries and Agriculture Standards; Community Development Funds			Supporting small-scale fishers
25		3.2 Livelihood security	3.2.1	Benefits to and within community	FAO SSF Guidelines 6.8; 7.8; 7.10; 12.2	Farm and Feed Standards	Community Development Funds	Survey tool for assessing socio-economic impact of certification	Socio-economic baseline studies in progress in India, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia	Supporting small-scale fishers
26			3.2.2	Economic value retention	FAO SSF Guidelines 7.8; 7.10; 12.2			Study on Socioeconomic impacts of MSC certification at the fishery level (United Kingdom)	Socio-economic baseline studies in progress India, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia	Supporting small-scale fishers
27			3.2.3	Long term profitability and future workforce	FAO SSF Guidelines 5.1; 6.3; 6.5; 6.7; 6.10; 7.4			Survey tool for assessing socio-economic impact of certification	Socio-economic baseline studies in progress in India, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia	Supporting small-scale fishers
28			3.2.4	Economic flexibility and autonomy	FAO SSF Guidelines 6.1; 6.4; 6.5	ASC Improver Programme providing entry path to improvements with verification	Community Development Funds		The IVP verification platform for small-scale producers + the Global improvemtn fund for seafood producing communities (under development)	Supporting small-scale fishers
29			3.2.5	Livelihood security	FAO SSF Guidelines 5.7; 5.8; 5.9; 6.1; 6.5; 6.10; 7.4	ASC Improver Programme providing entry path to improvements with verification; observation and allowance of legal customary rights; provision of jobs and workers rights		MSC fisheries standard requires systems to be in place to observe the legal rights created explicitly or established by custom of people dependent on fishing for food or livelihood	Research initiatives and the IVP all intended to improve livelihoods stability	Supporting small-scale fishers
30			3.2.6	Fuel resource efficiency	FAO SSF Guidelines 7.5	In development, greenhouse gas calculator will provide mechanism for farmers to understand their energy use and associated costs, to drive efficient use of resources. Standards currently maintain requirements for efficient resource use, but variable across standards				Supporting small-scale fishers