This Toolkit provides a range of good practices, case examples, and resources to guide companies on how to get started or how to enhance existing efforts to employ, empower, and improve the advancement prospects of those living in poverty.
This Toolkit, developed through literature review and drawing on the extensive knowledge and good practices of global GISC member companies, is intended as a resource for all employers at all stages of their inclusive employment journeys.
The Global Impact Sourcing Coalition (GISC), a network of global organizations collaborating to support more inclusive supply chains, envisions a world in which all people have opportunities to obtain productive employment and decent work.
The Toolkit includes context and guidance on good practices, case examples, and resources to accommodate low-income job seekers through the employment lifecycle, from recruitment to training and career development. It also offers guidance on setting the tone for inclusion in the workplace, as well as shaping supplemental employee offerings to help low-income job seekers secure work and succeed at it to build a pathway out of poverty for themselves and their families.
The Toolkit recommends steps companies can take to get started employing, empowering, and improving the advancement prospects of people who have been living in poverty. Practices include both operational adaptations, which are changes companies can make to existing policies, processes, and practices to best facilitate integration and advancement of low-income job seekers, and employee offerings, which are specific types of supplemental assistance that companies can provide to best enable low-income job seekers to build resilience and move out of poverty.
These are organized across the following sections:
- Setting the tone for inclusive employment through commitments, communication, and culture
- Making adaptations across the employee life cycle to better identify, integrate, and empower low-income job seekers
- Offering quality terms of employment that support sustainable livelihoods
- Developing supplemental employee offerings that enable employment and build resilience
You can download this toolkit for free here.
