📋 Datos del documento (click para expandir)
{
  "id": "ad0v8hAAACUAL_3v",
  "uid": "meaningful-stakeholder-engagement",
  "url": null,
  "type": "impact_area",
  "href": "https://fair-wear.cdn.prismic.io/api/v2/documents/search?ref=anB83xIAACoAJJCR&q=%5B%5B%3Ad+%3D+at%28document.id%2C+%22ad0v8hAAACUAL_3v%22%29+%5D%5D",
  "tags": [
    "Meaningful stakeholder engagement"
  ],
  "first_publication_date": "2026-04-13T18:04:14+0000",
  "last_publication_date": "2026-07-28T21:09:40+0000",
  "slugs": [
    "meaningful-stakeholder-engagement"
  ],
  "linked_documents": [],
  "lang": "en-us",
  "alternate_languages": [],
  "data": {
    "hero_label": "Impact Areas",
    "hero_logo": {
      "dimensions": {
        "width": 1135,
        "height": 1135
      },
      "alt": null,
      "copyright": null,
      "url": "https://images.prismic.io/fair-wear/mCZiTmVuwck0DYAb_meaningfulstakeholderengagement.png?auto=format,compress",
      "id": "mCZiTmVuwck0DYAb",
      "edit": {
        "x": 0,
        "y": 0,
        "zoom": 1,
        "background": "transparent"
      }
    },
    "hero_title": [
      {
        "type": "heading1",
        "text": "Meaningful stakeholder engagement",
        "spans": [],
        "direction": "ltr"
      }
    ],
    "hero_description": [
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "text": "Centring workers’ voices to inform HRDD in real time",
        "spans": [],
        "direction": "ltr"
      }
    ],
    "hero_image": {
      "dimensions": {
        "width": 6000,
        "height": 4000
      },
      "alt": null,
      "copyright": null,
      "url": "https://images.prismic.io/fair-wear/SQLRz2ejvmD-VMOt_ESR.jpg?auto=format,compress",
      "id": "SQLRz2ejvmD-VMOt",
      "edit": {
        "x": 0,
        "y": 0,
        "zoom": 1,
        "background": "transparent"
      }
    },
    "intro_body": [
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "text": "Meaningful stakeholder engagement (MSE) ensures that workers, their legitimate representatives and other stakeholders are actively involved in human rights due diligence — not as an afterthought, but as an ongoing, structured process. At Fair Wear, we support brands to build practical, worker-centred engagement that informs decisions, helps identify salient risks and drives continuous improvement across every stage of the due diligence cycle.",
        "spans": [],
        "direction": "ltr"
      }
    ],
    "intro_stats": [
      {
        "stat_value": "100+",
        "stat_label": "stakeholders engaged in the HRDD Hub"
      },
      {
        "stat_value": "56%",
        "stat_label": "of members encourage and act upon freedom of association and social dialogue"
      }
    ],
    "show_why_section": true,
    "why_label": null,
    "why_title": [],
    "why_description": [
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "text": "Without meaningful engagement, due diligence risks missing the realities workers face. Decisions made without worker input can overlook key risks or fail to deliver lasting improvements.",
        "spans": [],
        "direction": "ltr"
      }
    ],
    "why_items": [
      {
        "item_title": "Bringing workers into decisions that affect them.",
        "item_description": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "text": "Workers are often excluded from decisions that directly shape their working conditions. To ensure lasting improvement, workers and their legitimate representatives need to be involved in decisions that affect them early and continuously. ",
            "spans": [],
            "direction": "ltr"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "item_title": "Moving beyond tick-box engagement.",
        "item_description": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "text": "Engagement is too often treated as a one-off compliance exercise. We support brands to build continuous, two-way dialogue with workers and their representatives — iterative processes that generate real input and feed back into decision-making over time.",
            "spans": [],
            "direction": "ltr"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "item_title": "Connecting stakeholder voices to the full due diligence cycle.",
        "item_description": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "text": "Stakeholder input is frequently used only ad hoc, in isolated steps. We help brands integrate engagement consistently across all six stages of the HRDD cycle, ensuring worker perspectives inform risk identification, prevention, mitigation and remedy. ",
            "spans": [],
            "direction": "ltr"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "show_our_approach_section": true,
    "approach_title": [
      {
        "type": "heading2",
        "text": "Our approach",
        "spans": [],
        "direction": "ltr"
      }
    ],
    "approach_description": [
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "text": "Fair Wear supports brands in building engagement step by step — starting early, learning through practice, and strengthening systems over time. Our approach is continuous, iterative and built around genuine dialogue between brands, suppliers, workers and their representatives. ",
        "spans": [],
        "direction": "ltr"
      }
    ],
    "approach_principles": [
      {
        "principle_title": "Integration into HRDD",
        "principle_description": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "text": "Engagement informs every stage of the due diligence cycle, from risk identification and prevention to mitigation and remedy. ",
            "spans": [],
            "direction": "ltr"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "principle_title": "Worker-centred processes",
        "principle_description": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "text": "Workers and their legitimate representatives are actively involved throughout, not consulted after decisions are made.",
            "spans": [],
            "direction": "ltr"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "principle_title": "Continuous learning and iteration",
        "principle_description": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "text": "Brands build engagement capacity over time, improving through reflection and adaptation rather than one-off efforts.",
            "spans": [],
            "direction": "ltr"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "principle_title": "Collaboration and alignment",
        "principle_description": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "text": "Our approach is built on the STITCH MSE Framework, developed together with trade unions, civil society and industry partners.",
            "spans": [],
            "direction": "ltr"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "show_f_p_section": true,
    "frameworks_title": [
      {
        "type": "heading2",
        "text": "Frameworks & partnerships",
        "spans": [],
        "direction": "ltr"
      }
    ],
    "frameworks_description": [
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "text": "Through strategic partnerships and collaborative development, we build on frameworks that are becoming sector reference points — advancing practical guidance on meaningful stakeholder engagement and shaping how brands embed it into due diligence. ",
        "spans": [],
        "direction": "ltr"
      }
    ],
    "frameworks_cards": [
      {
        "card_title": "STITCH Framework on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement (MSE Framework)",
        "card_description": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "text": "This framework is designed to help companies embed meaningful stakeholder engagement into their human rights due diligence efforts. Developed collaboratively with trade unions, civil society and industry partners, it outlines the five principles of MSE: legitimacy, accessibility, safety, equitability, and respect.",
            "spans": [],
            "direction": "ltr"
          }
        ],
        "card_cta_label": "Learn more",
        "card_cta_link": {
          "link_type": "Web",
          "key": "61a01f81-10ed-4113-b05b-cbae6e82b7c4",
          "url": "https://www.stitchpartnership.org/mse-framework",
          "target": "_blank"
        }
      },
      {
        "card_title": "SER Meaningful Stakeholder Dialogue Guidance",
        "card_description": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "text": "Published by the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER), this guidance sets out what meaningful dialogue with stakeholders looks like in practice within human rights due diligence — offering a recognised reference point for companies seeking to strengthen their engagement approach.",
            "spans": [],
            "direction": "ltr"
          }
        ],
        "card_cta_label": "Learn more",
        "card_cta_link": {
          "link_type": "Web",
          "key": "4d4390d8-ff26-4cc3-bd6e-2a2eaecaa06e",
          "url": "https://www.ser.nl/en/themes/irbc/meaningful-dialogue",
          "target": "_blank"
        }
      }
    ],
    "show_highlighted_projects": true,
    "highlighted_projects_label": "In focus",
    "highlighted_projects_title": [
      {
        "type": "heading2",
        "text": "The practical guidance to integrate meaningful stakeholder engagement into HRDD",
        "spans": [],
        "direction": "ltr"
      }
    ],
    "highlighted_projects_description": [],
    "highlighted_projects": [
      {
        "project_image": {
          "dimensions": {
            "width": 2000,
            "height": 1414
          },
          "alt": null,
          "copyright": null,
          "url": "https://images.prismic.io/fair-wear/ajUJLY1P9HI4Ut-m_114.png?auto=format,compress",
          "id": "ajUJLY1P9HI4Ut-m",
          "edit": {
            "x": 0,
            "y": 0,
            "zoom": 1,
            "background": "transparent"
          }
        },
        "project_title": "STITCH Technical Guidance on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in the Garment, Apparel and Textile Sectors",
        "project_description": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "text": "This technical guidance offers sector-specific, practical direction for brands and suppliers looking to implement meaningful stakeholder engagement in garment, apparel and textile supply chains. Building on the STITCH MSE Framework, it translates principles into concrete actions through step-by step guidance and practical tools — helping companies move from commitment to practice in a way that is relevant to the realities of the sector. ",
            "spans": [],
            "direction": "ltr"
          }
        ],
        "project_cta_label": "Read the Technical Guidance",
        "project_cta_link": {
          "link_type": "Web",
          "key": "60894f0a-ea80-4ea6-87dd-c10dea42874b",
          "url": "https://www.stitchpartnership.org/mse-technical-guidance"
        }
      }
    ],
    "show_message": true,
    "message_us_title": [],
    "message_us_text": [],
    "message_us_image": {},
    "message_us_cta_label": null,
    "message_us_link": {
      "link_type": "Any"
    },
    "show_resources_section": true,
    "resources_label": "Resources",
    "resources_title": [
      {
        "type": "heading2",
        "text": "Practical resources to support implemenation",
        "spans": [],
        "direction": "ltr"
      }
    ],
    "resources_items": [
      {
        "resource_type": null,
        "resource_title": "Human Rights Due Diligence policy",
        "resource_description": [],
        "resource_cta_label": "Access resource",
        "resource_cta_link": {
          "link_type": "Web",
          "key": "25533db8-ebff-4201-a06b-21904f7b0c1f",
          "url": "https://fwf.my.site.com/website/resources?c__versionId=a4RIV000000DsKL2A0",
          "target": "_blank"
        }
      },
      {
        "resource_type": null,
        "resource_title": "Fair Wear's approach to Onsite Assessments",
        "resource_description": [],
        "resource_cta_label": "Access resource",
        "resource_cta_link": {
          "link_type": "Web",
          "key": "5823488b-745b-48e2-b1e5-b3f23fdc9ad8",
          "url": "https://fwf.my.site.com/website/resources?c__versionId=a4Ra20000008BBBEA2",
          "target": "_blank"
        }
      }
    ],
    "show_latest_stories": true,
    "thought_leadership_label": "Related stories",
    "thought_leadership_title": [
      {
        "type": "heading2",
        "text": "Explore our news and stories on meaningful stakeholder engagement",
        "spans": [],
        "direction": "ltr"
      }
    ],
    "thought_leadership_stories": [
      {
        "latest_stories_stories_item": {
          "id": "amic8hMAACwA0gCC",
          "type": "stories",
          "tags": [
            "Vietnam",
            "Meaningful stakeholder engagement"
          ],
          "lang": "en-us",
          "slug": "from-consultation-to-collaboration-what-meaningful-stakeholder-engagement-looks-like-in-practice",
          "first_publication_date": "2026-07-28T12:19:18+0000",
          "last_publication_date": "2026-07-31T09:12:37+0000",
          "uid": "from-consultation-to-collaboration-what-meaningful-stakeholder-engagement-looks-like-in-practice",
          "data": {
            "title": [
              {
                "type": "heading1",
                "text": "From consultation to collaboration: what meaningful stakeholder engagement looks like in practice",
                "spans": [],
                "direction": "ltr"
              }
            ],
            "cover_image": {
              "dimensions": {
                "width": 5712,
                "height": 2840
              },
              "alt": null,
              "copyright": null,
              "url": "https://images.prismic.io/fair-wear/Z1UmK5JC0gCS9_uB_VietnamMSEPIlot.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&rect=398%2C1253%2C4800%2C2387&w=5712&h=2840",
              "id": "Z1UmK5JC0gCS9_uB",
              "edit": {
                "x": 398,
                "y": 1253,
                "zoom": 1.19,
                "background": "transparent"
              },
              "Card": {
                "dimensions": {
                  "width": 600,
                  "height": 400
                },
                "alt": null,
                "copyright": null,
                "url": "https://images.prismic.io/fair-wear/Z1UmK5JC0gCS9_uB_VietnamMSEPIlot.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&rect=0%2C238%2C5712%2C3808&w=600&h=400",
                "id": "Z1UmK5JC0gCS9_uB",
                "edit": {
                  "x": 0,
                  "y": 238,
                  "zoom": 1,
                  "background": "transparent"
                }
              }
            }
          },
          "link_type": "Document",
          "key": "a5999d80-1238-4969-b4b1-448207686c0b",
          "isBroken": false
        }
      }
    ],
    "show_explore_further": true,
    "explore_label": "Explore further",
    "explore_description": [
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "text": "Learn more about other impact areas",
        "spans": [],
        "direction": "ltr"
      }
    ],
    "explore_cards": [
      {
        "card_title": "Gender responsiveness",
        "card_description": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "text": "Putting gender at the heart of human rights due diligence",
            "spans": [],
            "direction": "ltr"
          }
        ],
        "card_cta_label": "Learn more",
        "card_cta_link": {
          "id": "ad0wOhAAACYAL_5x",
          "type": "impact_area",
          "tags": [
            "Gender responsiveness"
          ],
          "lang": "en-us",
          "slug": "gender-responsiveness",
          "first_publication_date": "2026-04-13T18:05:03+0000",
          "last_publication_date": "2026-07-28T21:04:05+0000",
          "uid": "gender-responsiveness",
          "link_type": "Document",
          "key": "a01bc0c2-b858-49f8-af47-c04a57090603",
          "isBroken": false
        }
      },
      {
        "card_title": "Equitable sourcing",
        "card_description": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "text": "Transforming sourcing to work for people and business",
            "spans": [],
            "direction": "ltr"
          }
        ],
        "card_cta_label": "Learn more",
        "card_cta_link": {
          "id": "ad0vLRAAACUAL_zH",
          "type": "impact_area",
          "tags": [
            "Equitable sourcing"
          ],
          "lang": "en-us",
          "slug": "equitable-sourcing",
          "first_publication_date": "2026-04-13T18:02:06+0000",
          "last_publication_date": "2026-07-28T21:07:29+0000",
          "uid": "equitable-sourcing",
          "link_type": "Document",
          "key": "7dffefdb-784d-463b-ab6e-1375f75513fb",
          "isBroken": false
        }
      },
      {
        "card_title": "Access to remedy",
        "card_description": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "text": "From grievances to lasting change",
            "spans": [],
            "direction": "ltr"
          }
        ],
        "card_cta_label": "Learn more",
        "card_cta_link": {
          "id": "ad0wXxAAACUAL_62",
          "type": "impact_area",
          "tags": [
            "Access to remedy "
          ],
          "lang": "en-us",
          "slug": "access-to-remedy",
          "first_publication_date": "2026-04-13T18:05:43+0000",
          "last_publication_date": "2026-07-28T21:15:46+0000",
          "uid": "access-to-remedy",
          "link_type": "Document",
          "key": "a9cb2a11-b57d-4f93-994c-c0e3d8ff3bd1",
          "isBroken": false
        }
      }
    ],
    "show_partner_section": true,
    "partner_title": [
      {
        "type": "heading2",
        "text": "Partner with us",
        "spans": [],
        "direction": "ltr"
      }
    ],
    "partner_description": [
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "text": "Interested in working together to drive meaningful change? We’re always open to collaborations that strengthen impact and push the garment industry forward. ",
        "spans": [],
        "direction": "ltr"
      }
    ],
    "partner_image": {
      "dimensions": {
        "width": 2000,
        "height": 2000
      },
      "alt": null,
      "copyright": null,
      "url": "https://images.prismic.io/fair-wear/LbTx635mBpjc7G41_FactoryOverview.jpg?auto=format,compress",
      "id": "LbTx635mBpjc7G41",
      "edit": {
        "x": 0,
        "y": 0,
        "zoom": 1,
        "background": "transparent"
      }
    },
    "partner_cta_label": "Partner with us",
    "partner_cta_link": {
      "id": "ad017hAAACUAMAi0",
      "type": "template_forms",
      "tags": [],
      "lang": "en-us",
      "slug": "partner-with-us",
      "first_publication_date": "2026-04-13T18:29:30+0000",
      "last_publication_date": "2026-07-28T11:15:21+0000",
      "uid": "partnership-form",
      "link_type": "Document",
      "key": "232d2e5a-01a9-4dc5-9b03-59f388f08f4b",
      "isBroken": false
    },
    "meta_title": null,
    "meta_description": null,
    "og_image": {}
  }
}

Impact Areas

Meaningful stakeholder engagement

Centring workers’ voices to inform HRDD in real time

Meaningful stakeholder engagement (MSE) ensures that workers, their legitimate representatives and other stakeholders are actively involved in human rights due diligence — not as an afterthought, but as an ongoing, structured process. At Fair Wear, we support brands to build practical, worker-centred engagement that informs decisions, helps identify salient risks and drives continuous improvement across every stage of the due diligence cycle.

100+

stakeholders engaged in the HRDD Hub

56%

of members encourage and act upon freedom of association and social dialogue

Without meaningful engagement, due diligence risks missing the realities workers face. Decisions made without worker input can overlook key risks or fail to deliver lasting improvements.

  • Bringing workers into decisions that affect them. Workers are often excluded from decisions that directly shape their working conditions. To ensure lasting improvement, workers and their legitimate representatives need to be involved in decisions that affect them early and continuously. 
  • Moving beyond tick-box engagement. Engagement is too often treated as a one-off compliance exercise. We support brands to build continuous, two-way dialogue with workers and their representatives — iterative processes that generate real input and feed back into decision-making over time.
  • Connecting stakeholder voices to the full due diligence cycle. Stakeholder input is frequently used only ad hoc, in isolated steps. We help brands integrate engagement consistently across all six stages of the HRDD cycle, ensuring worker perspectives inform risk identification, prevention, mitigation and remedy. 

Our approach

Fair Wear supports brands in building engagement step by step — starting early, learning through practice, and strengthening systems over time. Our approach is continuous, iterative and built around genuine dialogue between brands, suppliers, workers and their representatives. 

  • Engagement informs every stage of the due diligence cycle, from risk identification and prevention to mitigation and remedy. 

  • Workers and their legitimate representatives are actively involved throughout, not consulted after decisions are made.

  • Brands build engagement capacity over time, improving through reflection and adaptation rather than one-off efforts.

  • Our approach is built on the STITCH MSE Framework, developed together with trade unions, civil society and industry partners.

Frameworks & partnerships

Through strategic partnerships and collaborative development, we build on frameworks that are becoming sector reference points — advancing practical guidance on meaningful stakeholder engagement and shaping how brands embed it into due diligence. 

STITCH Framework on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement (MSE Framework)

This framework is designed to help companies embed meaningful stakeholder engagement into their human rights due diligence efforts. Developed collaboratively with trade unions, civil society and industry partners, it outlines the five principles of MSE: legitimacy, accessibility, safety, equitability, and respect.

SER Meaningful Stakeholder Dialogue Guidance

Published by the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER), this guidance sets out what meaningful dialogue with stakeholders looks like in practice within human rights due diligence — offering a recognised reference point for companies seeking to strengthen their engagement approach.

In focus

The practical guidance to integrate meaningful stakeholder engagement into HRDD

STITCH Technical Guidance on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in the Garment, Apparel and Textile Sectors

This technical guidance offers sector-specific, practical direction for brands and suppliers looking to implement meaningful stakeholder engagement in garment, apparel and textile supply chains. Building on the STITCH MSE Framework, it translates principles into concrete actions through step-by step guidance and practical tools — helping companies move from commitment to practice in a way that is relevant to the realities of the sector. 

Resources

Practical resources to support implemenation

Related stories

Explore our news and stories on meaningful stakeholder engagement