THE ISSARA MODEL


Issara team @ origin: Myanmar

Issara team @ destination: Thailand

Issara team @ destination: Malaysia
worker voice
We are on the ground, operating as a network, speaking the many languages and dialects of job seekers and workers in Asia. Being on the ground, trusted, and connected to both workers and business allows us to receive, cross-check, and action emerging issues. As frontline service providers we also safeguard workers reporting issues.
partnership
Partnerships with global brands, retailers, and progressive suppliers and industry leaders open up opportunities to engage with their upstream suppliers, the recruiters working with those suppliers, and the workers within these workplaces. Strong partnerships with all these stakeholders across the supply chain create space for worker voice to be heard and responded to in a safe, timely, and effective manner.
innovation
So many workers nowadays have smartphones and are savvy. Issara develops technologies to help to educate and empower job seekers and workers, and integrate safeguarded worker voice into business systems and data. We build these apps ourselves, in-house, to ensure worker-centered design and ethical handling of sensitive data.
INCLUSIVE LABOR MONITORING (ILM) ACTION NETWORK
Inclusive Labor Monitoring (ILM) is a worker voice-centered tech system and multi-stakeholder collaboration platform equipping global brands, retailers, suppliers, recruitment agencies, and government with the tools to drive more ethical supply chains and engage meaningfully with workers and civil society.
On the tech side, ILM is a secure, cloud-based case management system for the real-time monitoring of worker-validated labor recruitment and working conditions, spanning origin and destination countries.
On the human side, ILM brings together NGOs, trade unions, recruitment agencies, suppliers, brands and retailers, workers, and even the public in a groundbreaking and systematic way to work toward a common objective of identifying and reducing human trafficking and forced labor in global supply chains.