ONGOING PROJECT

SocialDrives supports Business and Children’s Rights Working Group - IGCN, Unicef, PKPA, Binus University Business School, APSAI, and Save the Children to understand the similarities and difference of Children Righst and Business Principles (CRBP), Women Empowerment Principles (WEPS) and the Guidance for Business on the Rights of People with Disability (GBRPD) principles, indicators and criteria by doing desk study and focus group discussion. 

Requested by the Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative (IOJI), SocialDrives assists IOJI in developing their project Theory of Change, logical framework and project monitoring and evaluation plan. The assistance covers three IOJI’s projects that focus on the blue carbon and small fisherman protection. 

In the first phase (November 2022-September 2023), SocialDrives supports Freedom Fund to do an assessment, capacity building, and technical assistance towards their partner organizations in Indonesia, particularly in the development of the theory of change and project monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) system. The partners are implementing the Hotspot project on forced labour in the seafood industry, including the issues affecting migrant fishers overseas and seafood processing workers.

In the second phase (October 2023 - September 2024), the consultation has focused on providing technical assistance in reporting writing, revisiting the theory of change, and to assist the writing of proposals for the second phase of the project proposal that partner organizations will submit. 

Specific Technical Assistant to the Partner Organization in North Sulawesi (March 2024 - March 2025), SocialDrives has been assigned to provide technical assistance on monitoring, evaluation, and learning to labour union who work in fisheries sector and based in North Sulawesi 

Funded by the Dutch Enterprise Agency (RVO) under Social Sustainability Fund (SSF), SocialDrives supports a consortium of Verstegen Spices & Sauces, Stitching Local Impact Hub  and Tripper Nature in doing baseline study of cassia value chain in Jambi. The project aims to reduce risks, improve compliance with regulations, and promote responsible business practices within the cassia industry by conducting a social sustainability risk assessment to identify and prioritize risks for stakeholders, develop mitigating measures based on the needs of affected workers and leverage their expertise and network to gather local insights.

Supporting a Germany-based apparel brand, S.Oliver by providing tailor-made training to the supplier (garment factory) in Central Java in the topic of freedom of association and discrimination. The training is provided both to the factory management and workers representative to improve their knowledge and skill.

SocialDrives supports Local Impact Hub in implementing the project from Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) on risk assessment in rubber sector, particularly in Asia region which covers Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philipines, Myanmar, India and Sri Lanka.

Supporting Yayasan Care Peduli to do data verification of GES and baseline study  in the TARGET's supplier (garment factories) in West Java and Central Java. TARGET is an American big box department store chain with stores in all US states. One of TARGET's Responsible Sourcing and Sustainability Goals 2025 is to build a resilient supply chain through equity and justice. The objective is to have 100% of suppliers have policies and programs implemented to advance gender equity. The plan is to achieve this through equitable systems for hiring and advancement, financial security for workers, effective anonymous channels for incident reporting, and access to gender responsive health information and services for workers.

Supporting  EU-based apparel brands, S.Oliver and Picture in capacity building of their supplier (garment factory) in West Java on Workplace Education (WEP) and gender. The WEP training use training module of Fair Wear Foundation that encourage employers and workers to have constructive communication to identify and addressing issues in the factory. This training contributes to a better social dialogue.and working condition 

The gender training covers Occupational Health and Safety, as well as on how to prevent, mitigate and address Gender Based Violence (GBV) including sexual harassment at the workplace. The factory was assisted to establish Gender Committee with solid work plan.

Undertake baseline study on STRONGER: “Sustainable intervention, Greater Voices, and Change the Barrier on Violence  Against Women and Girls”. STRONGER  is further OXFAM efforts to consolidate the intervention results and  strengthen existing achievements of previous intervention, Creating Spaces, to optimize the  impact and expand the movement to prevent child marriage. This follow-up effort is carried out  to achieve the Goal: Girls and Boys in 4 targeted provinces (East Java, West Java, South  Sulawesi, and West Nusa Tenggara) are free from child marriage. 

To support AMURT and KNH-BMZ on final evaluation of project titled "Supporting Quality Early Childhood Education and Promulgating a Child-Centred Early Childhood Teacher-Training Program in Demak District, Indonesia". The project is focus on  training for Early Childhood teachers training program. Final evaluation provides practical recommendations for future improvement and design of next projects.

Supported by Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC), this study will provide the complexity of environment, the challenges and good practices on how to fulfil the rights of children, including on how to prevent and address the child labour in palm oil plantations. Furthermore, this study will discuss the progress of the inclusion of child’s rights into the policies and sustainability standards, using Indonesia and Malaysia as geographical settings. This research seeks to understand how oil palm company activities affect children’s lives, what are the challenges in protecting and respecting children’s rights, as well as what companies operating in Indonesia and Malaysia can do and/or should do to respect children’s rights. It also will provide recommendations to improve company’s practice.  

The objective of this project is to identify lesson learned, success and challenge  in delivering an effective influencing against poverty and inequality,  including three programs [Economic Justice,  Gender Justice, and Right in Crises]. Oxfam is a global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. Oxfam are working across regions in more than 90 countries with thousands of partners and allies.

To support Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative to do Cost-Benefit Analysis as additional to their study on "The Effectiveness of the Small Fisherman Law and Management of Coastal Zone and Small Islands (PWP3K) Law", that has been conducted in 7 coastal areas in Indonesia. IOJI is an independent think thank that has focus on marine governance and sustainable ocean governance.

To support Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) Indonesia and Philippines in facilitating offline sharing and learning workshop in Yogyakarta that involves organization partners. ASB is a German relief and social welfare organization engaged in social service provisions including civil protection, rescue service and social welfare. ASB works through more than 200 branch offices in Germany and more than 20 countries. 

The objective of the learning workshop is to identify lesson learned, success and challenge in strengthening capacity of civil society in Indonesia in promoting sustainable and responsible Asia investment in the energy sector and achieving the SDGs goal 5, 7 and 13 and Paris Declaration Goals for the benefit of women, poor and marginalized people.  

Supported by Belgium-based organization, this study focus on analysing the impact of climate change to the palm oil workers, as well as the quality of the social protection for workers (BPJS Employment). This research come with the recommendations for CSOs on how they can advocate adaptive social protection that can improve workers health and welfare condition.