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Reach more buyers at Hong Kong Toy and Games Fair 2019!

Contact bella.ma@ethicaltoyprogram.org if you wish to collect Ethical Toy Program's logos to display on your booth.

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To Ensure the Quality of Our Certification Program, IETP Regularly Performs KPI Reviews of Accredited Audit Firms

Taking Progress Visits (PVs) as an example. Post-certification follow-up is an essential element of the IETP certification, at the same time, it is also important for brands, retailers, and licensors to know supplier factories are making efforts to improve labour conditions.

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ICTI Ethical Toy Program 18 Month ‘Class A Seal’ comes to an end

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The Ethical Toy Program Announces New Assessment Module to Support Companies Achieve Their Environmental Ambitions

The Environmental Assessment can be implemented globally and offers a new way for businesses in any industry to establish and advance their Environmental Strategy. Through clear, consistent, and consolidated information, businesses of any size can benchmark their supply chain partners and identify risks and opportunities. This assessment will enable companies to better understand the environmental performance of their global supply chain and to report on it. Businesses can leverage this information to develop action plans for their sustainability strategy and join forces with the rest of the world in combatting climate change.

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IETP to kick start 2021 Family-Friendly Programs

This year, marks the 6th year since the launch of the Family-Friendly Spaces (FFS) program. This program is a social initiative that has been tailor-made for the manufacturing industry with the goal of providing child care services to left-behind children and the children of migrant workers, as well as to strengthen the parent-child bond for migrant workers during the summer holidays.

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Ethical Toy Program and The Toy Association Launch New Strategic Partnership

The Ethical Toy Program’s new strategic collaboration with the U.S.-based Toy Association is the first in a series of new partnerships that will see the Ethical Toy Program work with other national toy associations around the world to further develop, scale, and promote responsible sourcing collaborations that will result in additional support for small- and medium-sized (SME) toy companies.

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IETP audit partners on track to achieve APSCA registration

Supporting APSCA’s development

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IETP Checklist Version 3.0 Effective on 1 March 2023

To help suppliers learn more about IETP's latest updates and prepare audits in advance, we are going to host three free webinars targeting all IETP registered factories' management, please click the below links for more details.

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UNICEF and UN Global Compact Summit on “Family-Friendly Policies: A Deep Dive on Business Action”

Program such as Ethical Toy Program Family Friendly Spaces (FFS) enable parents and caregivers to provide the best start in life for their children; they pay off in healthier, better-educated children, a better-equipped workforce and more sustainable growth.

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Factory Announcement: Data collection on Foreign Migrant Workers

International legislation and global initiatives on Modern Day Slavery require toy brands and retailers to make efforts to ensure their supply chains are free from all forms of Modern Day Slavery, including forced labor, slavery, and human trafficking.

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Exploring manufacturing opportunities in Vietnam

During the seminar, we shared information on the business environment, culture and common challenges in Vietnam, alongside insights on labor practices, overtime, and environmental health and safety requirements in Vietnam.

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Getting started on Connect

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Reach more buyers at Hong Kong Toy and Games Fair 2019!

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Free Rural-Urban Integration illustrated booklet to support migrant factory workers

Designed in an informative, yet entertaining comic book style, the booklet is intended as a resource which factory workers can read in their leisure time. The booklet also serves as a useful resource for factory managers to help them better understand, communicate, and motivate migrant workers, helping to accelerate their adjustment to workplace culture.

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ICTI玩具业责任规范(IETP)宣布新一届第三方审核公司小组

我们正在与以上公司以及将退出审核公司小组的公司合作,以确保审核安排平稳过渡,不会对我们的任何成员造成困扰。这个过渡过程估计需要六个月,将涉及3家新公司加入小组、2家公司退出小组。

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Expanding our services beyond Certification: Introducing Social Impact Assessment

The IETP Social Impact Assessment is designed to assess a manufacturing site, vendor, agent or licensee’s social impact by measuring the effectiveness of their management systems in place for labor standards in their businesses and in their supply chains. Social impact is the effect an organization has on people and communities as a result of its actions, activities, projects, programs or policies.

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Ethical Toy Program Conducts 6th Annual Toy Factory Survey

The survey offers factories a unique opportunity to give anonymous feedback. More than 45% of all factories in the ICTI Ethical Toy Program, from eight countries, participated in this years’ survey.

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Ethical Toy Program and Save the Children announce partnership and webinar series to advance Child Rights

The CRBPs are based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and are aligned with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and support the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Principles provide a comprehensive framework for understanding and addressing the impact of business on the rights and well-being of children, requiring business to respect and support children’s rights by both preventing harm and actively safeguarding children’s interests.

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New Ethical Toy Program WeChat Account Strengthens Factory Communications in China

The Ethical Toy Program will use WeChat to connect with factory management, sharing learning resources for factories, details of Ethical Toy Program news and events, guidance on Ethical Toy Program policies, best practice on audit requirements and upcoming factory training sessions - helping to make our comprehensive support accessible to all.

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CRB Conference: 5th India & Sustainability Standards 2018

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Ethical Toy Program at UNICEF & UN Global Compact Summits on Family-Friendly Policies

Ethical Toy Program then joined others from government, business, the UN, academia and civil society to participate in a business-focused, deep-dive discussion exploring key issues and challenges around family-friendly policies.

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Ethical Toy Program Launch Reception at New York Toy Fair

At the reception, we’ll discuss

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ICTI Ethical Toy Program launches new online Auditor Assessment Function on Connect Platform

The Ethical Toy Program is adding a new Auditor Assessment Functionality to the Connect Platform. This new, online feedback tool enables toy factories to evaluate, and feedback on, the performance of on-site auditors.

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Ethical Toy Program leads the way on audit integrity monitoring

Ethical Toy Program – the leading responsible sourcing program for the global toy industry – has developed an auditor assessment tool to enable toy factories to evaluate, and feedback on, the performance of on-site auditors. This online assessment tool is the first of its kind for factories undergoing social compliance audits.