Social Accountability International (SAI) is a non-governmental, multi-stakeholder organization whose mission is to advance the human rights of workers around the world. It partners to advance the human rights of workers and to eliminate sweatshops by promoting ethical working conditions, labor rights, corporate social responsibility and social dialogue.
SAI works to protect the integrity of workers around the world by building local capacity and developing systems of accountability through socially responsible standards. SAI established one of the world's preeminent social standards—the SA8000 standard for decent work, a tool for implementing international labor standards--that has improved the lives of over a million workers in 63 countries. SA8000 guides employers to consider the importance of each job and to recognize the equal dignity of each person involved in the supply chain - from the worker to the retailer to the consumer. The SA8000 standard leverages the power of business and consumers to purchase products made from workplaces that enrich, not denigrate, the livelihoods of people.
SAI recognizes that voluntary compliance standards are only one part of what is needed to raise labor law compliance around the world. To that end, SAI has developed locally-grounded programs, such as Project Cultivar, to work on the broader context surrounding compliance. The goal of these programs is to build an enabling environment for labor rights by:
• strengthening local capacity and leadership to support employer compliance efforts and enable worker participation;
• promoting social dialogue as a foundation for sustainable change; and
• connecting government enforcement with incentive-driven voluntary compliance.
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