Author name: Levi Kuijer

Together with our partners, we have established the WageMap consortium to support the achievement of living wages for workers globally, through harmonization of data and methodologies. NewForesight is hosting the Project Management Office, facilitating the WageMap consortium around its main objectives, and together with our partners we carry out fundraising, and attract new partners. Read […]

The request: Bonsucro requested NewForesight to identify feasible benchmarking methodologies to include a decent or living wage benchmark in Bonsucro’s Production Standard. Activities: We performed necessary research to amend existing and propose additional indicators on providing a decent wage indicator together with the guidance for auditing such indicators. NewForesight conducted a thorough review of existing

The request: NewForesight has been the dedicated learning partner on the living wage and income journey of a global cosmetic brand over the past four years. Activities: NewForesight has supported the brand to measure current wages and incomes of workers and producers along 20+ supply chains. This has led to assessments of the Living Wage/Income

The request: Challenge for Youth Employment (CFYE) and Palladium sought our support to develop a methodology to measure impact on decent job creation of projects across 23 African and Middle East countries. Activities: We developed a scalable methodology to analyze living wage and income gaps, to inform the level of job decency across 23 African

The request: Rainforest and ILO sought to better understand how global supply chains impact worker wages and conditions. Activities: We conducted three sectorial studies in coffee, tea, and banana to understand how global supply chains and market dynamics impact workers’ wages and working conditions. We analyzed wage data from five countries to inform the current

The request: IDH sought to bring together a consortium of major tea brands and producers to drive commitments in the global tea sector towards higher premiums to enable living wages among tea workers in tea producing countries. Activities: We first established the global Living Wage Gap in Sri Lanka, India, Malawi and Kenya, and drove

With IDH, we developed the Living Wage Action Guide to provide an online tool for companies to be inspired and learn more about how to take action on living wages. We developed the evidence base and structure of the guide. The Guide provides an overview of solutions, informative case studies, and tips and tricks for