SUSA provides innovative and needs-oriented solutions for our clients’ challenges.

SUSA provides innovative and needs-oriented solutions for our clients’ challenges. We use methods from design thinking, change management, mediation, non-violent communication and coaching to develop services and products based on clients’ needs. With our agile and customer-oriented approach, we implement successful projects with a pioneering spirit. We are passionate about developing successful projects in challenging environments. Our proven success with developing lighthouse projects rests on our ability to work under uncertain, volatile and complex conditions.

Our approach builds on five main pillars which we experience as very powerful and essential for driving positive change. As driving change is always connected to behaviour patterns, our pillars put the human factor in the centre.

In order to improve social, economic and environmental conditions certain topics need to be addressed along the global supply chains. We at SUSA developed through our hands-on approach expertise and detailed knowledge in various fields.

We rely on our diverse and global network of experts who are at the cutting edge of improving the global supply chains. We have more than 100 close partners across the globe who contribute significantly to SUSA’s success.

As an organisation, we are committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Through our projects, we help our customers to make an important contribution to achieving these goals on a daily basis. The following are concrete examples of actions and projects we have developed and implemented to achieve the following SDGs:

Our programs across the globe

• increase women’s representation in management as supervisors, HR managers, OHS officers, etc. 
• promote women’s full and effective participation in their workplace through increased decision making power 
• address physical and sexual violence as well as sexual harassment and discrimination at the workplace
• empower women in factories to advocate for female-friendly workplaces  e.g. clean toilets, separate prayer room, nursing room, child centers

• change mindsets and behavior when it comes to sustainable use of  resources at the factory (trainings on reducing water consumption, installation of energy-saving equipment or switching to more efficient energy sources)
• contribute to access to safe and affordable drinking water in the factories 
• contribute to reducing water pollution and release of hazardous chemicals;  minimizing untreated wastewater; and, substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse in production

• promote high standards of health and safety in the factories, encouraging employees to take personal and collective responsibility for creating a safe work environment
• improve working conditions including occupational health and safety
• provide skills training to garment workers (a majority of whom are young woman)
• Identify and implement effective measures to eradicate forced labour and child labour
• bring together suppliers and brands to develop standards that uphold labour rights
• increase in national compliance of labour rights through consultations with the government, local NGOs  and other relevant stakeholders

• create opportunities for workers to develop their skills and gain access to improved employment opportunities at the factory as well as outside of the industrial manufacturing plants
• create opportunities for trainers to develop their skills and gain access to improved employment opportunities within their field
• support producers from low income countries in developing business strategies to become more international and to meet international social and environmental standards
• encourage companies within the value chain to pay living wages

• SUSA  lives its equal opportunity policies prohibiting discrimination in all forms, and encourages our clients and partners to do the same
• SUSA cooperates with local partners in low-income countries and builds their capacity

• contribute to raise awareness, educate and gain commitment of stakeholders along the supply chain to sustainable production and sustainable workplace, as well as lifestyles in harmony with nature. Topics of SUSAs trainings are e.g.: waste management, water management, energy efficiency, cleaner production
• contribute to increase energy and water efficiency in industrial manufacturing plants and across distribution networks
• have an positive environmental impact of the garment sector

• design and implement natural disaster risk mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery plans at industrial plants and manufacturing facilities in high-risk locations
• improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation and impact reduction