Thank you for an impactful year! Here are some highlights:

Our USDOL-funded Palma Futuro project came to a close this year. The project promoted decent working conditions and the prevention and eradication of child labor and forced labor in palm oil supply chains in Colombia and Ecuador. Over the past five years, the project provided technical assistance to 8 private sector partners and 348 palm oil suppliers to improve their labor performance, trained 226 people within the private sector and 789 non-private sector stakeholders, and formed 65 Community Circles.

Take a look at our impact report for more information, stories from the project, and Q&As with the Palma Futuro team. 

This year marks the tenth anniversary of TenSquared, our accelerated change management program to improve social performance and relations between workers and management. As of this year, the program has impacted over 78,000 workers at participating facilities. It is now available in five countries—Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, and Turkey—and we plan to introduce new countries in 2025. Check out our TenSquared impact report to read about the program's achievements over the past ten years, case studies, and client testimonials. 

We also continued to grow our living wage implementation consultancy work this year, completing current wage assessments with Living Wage gap analyses, and training for 8 facilities and multiple brands. We look forward to building on this work with new clients and projects planned in the new year.   

MY Voice, our project to increase worker voice and address forced and child labor in Malaysia's garment and palm oil sectors, trained 480 individuals from the private sector, worker groups, CSOs, labor unions, and government, launched work with 2 new private sector partners in the garment and palm oil industries, and launched the Child Rights Action Hub in the palm oil industry.

For brands in the palm oil and garment industries in Malaysia interested in participating in our 2025 training program, visit our website to learn more.

MY Voice also joined Facebook - follow the page for updates!

Our USDOL-funded Mexico Awareness-Raising project, which seeks to raise awareness of the 2019 labor justice system reform in Mexico, implemented 20 workshops, reaching 435 stakeholders from throughout the auto, electronics, mining, steel and aluminum, and other sectors this year. 

Over 700 social auditors, business managers, union leaders, civil society representatives, government officials, and many others attended SAI's 48 public trainings in 30 countries. We also launched the IRIS Ethical Recruitment Auditor training, a new opportunity for stakeholders seeking a deeper understanding of how to implement ethical recruitment principles in the context of international migration. 

See all our upcoming courses.

Our Sustentar project, which aims to prevent child labor, forced labor, and improve working conditions in the Mexican chile pepper and tomato sectors, established 17 partnerships with agricultural companies and growers, conducting Social Fingerprint assessments and organizing Social Performance Teams with them all. The team also formed 9 Community Circles and trained over 500 people this year.

For more information about the project, visit the Sustentar website.

There are currently 5,651 SA8000®-certified companies, impacting over 2.7 million workers across 55 countries and 69 industries. Visit our SA8000 program page to take a deeper look at this year's numbers. 

We continued the SA8000 revision process this year, engaging with over 600 stakeholders through our online webforms, 20 webinars and 4 in-person workshops for their feedback on the draft Standard. From all of us at SAI, we would like to thank everyone who provided their valuable feedback and insights. We look forward to sharing SA8000:2025 in the new year.

The Anker Research Institute continued to advance high-quality, publicly accessible, living wage and living income research this year. The team completed or initiated 20 benchmark studies this year across countries like Brazil, China, Indonesia, and Ethiopia. The institute also updated over 100 living wage estimates for almost 60 countries.

Visit their website for more information.