Working together to improve living wages throughout the supply chain
With the Partnership Initiatives Learning & Implementation Community (LIC), and Living Wage Lab 2.0 members of the Textile Partnership made significant contributions to this key issue and developed concrete approaches to improve purchasing practices throughout the supply chain and to expand corporate strategies on living wages. Following their successful completion, the results demonstrate how companies, suppliers and employee representatives can work together to find solutions.
Sustainable Textile Industry: Partnership for Sustainable Textiles sets course for the future
The Partnership for Sustainable Textiles is reorganising itself and laying a new foundation for stable and sustainable future collaboration with its transformation into the format ‘Dialogue and Impact for Sustainable Textiles’.
Supporting suppliers on their gender data journey: learnings from the ETI/PST pilot project in India
In October 2023, the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) and the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) embarked on a collaborative pilot project in Tamil Nadu, India. The aim was to explore how fashion brands and suppliers
Completion of the Partnership Initiative “Gender Data Gap”: A Key Step Towards Gender Equality in the Textile Industry
The “Gender Data Gap” project has successfully come to an end. The aim of this Partnership Initiative (BI) was to address the lack of reliable data on gender equality in the textile industry. Although issues
Expanding access to remedy: Fair Wear and the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles further their collaboration
Interview with Annabel Meurs, Fair Wear’s Executive Director and Gina Burgard, Head of Secretariat of “Partnership for Sustainable Textiles”. The Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) and Fair Wear have partnered for many years, jointly expanding
Review of the 11th Members’ Meeting
On 14th and 15th of May, around 125 participants came together for the 11th Members’ Meeting in Berlin – an event full of impetus, dialogue and practice-oriented discussions on key challenges and progress in the
Exciting News: New partnership between the PST and STS 2030
We are excited to announce a new cooperation between the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) and Sustainable Textiles Switzerland 2030 (STS 2030)! The collaboration between the two multi-stakeholder-initiatives is driven by a shared understanding: To
Recap to the 2025 OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector
This year’s forum provided participants in Paris and online with an important platform for exchanging perspectives, making lasting contacts and taking joint action. As in previous years, this event brought together representatives from governments, businesses,
Update of the “Gender Data Gap” Partnership Initiative
The Partnership Initiative “Gender Data Gap” has made great progress the past year. In July 2024, a large workshop was held for project participants in Bonn, where key issues and measures were discussed and finalised.
Reflecting on the Second Phase of the PST Partnership Initiative Joint Grievance Mechanism with Fair Wear
Successful Completion of a Transformative Collaboration In October 2024, the second phase of the Joint Grievance Mechanism initiative by Fair Wear and the German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) concluded, marking the successful end of
amfori, Fair Wear and PST Join Forces to Tackle Grievances from Shared Factories
November 2025 In September 2022, amfori, Fair Wear and the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to to jointly address workers’ grievances raised at factories shared between their member brands
Gina Burgard is the new head of the Partnership Secretariat
Linda Schraml hands over the management of the Textiles Partnership Secretariat to Gina Burgard Over the past two years, the Textiles Partnership has made important progress with the implementation of the realignment under the leadership
Adapting purchasing practices, safeguarding livelihoods
The recently adopted Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive at EU level, which will introduce further requirements for the private sector in addition to the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, as well as the ILO
Webinar Series: Europe’s Green Transition in the Textile Sector
The Partnership for Sustainable Textiles and the Green Button launch joint webinar series on upcoming legislation under the EU Textile Strategy Join the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles and the Green Button on 21st of September
Strengthening Supplier Capacity to Collect and Use Gender-Disaggregated Supply Chain Data
Collaboration with Ethical Trading Initiative kicked off In April, the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles and the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) kicked off a joint project that aims at strengthening suppliers’ capacity to collect and use
Annual Report 2023
Looking back on a year with new requirements and the realignment of the Textiles Partnership At the 10th members’ meeting on 17 and 18 April, Linda Schraml, Head of the Partnership Secretariat, presented the 2023
10th Members’ Meeting
The realignment goes into implementation! Around 125 participants attended the 10th Members’ Meeting of the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles in Berlin. They engaged in lively discussions in presentations, workshops and working groups and laid further
Strengthening the rights of refugee workers in the textile sector
During a trip to Türkiye in March, the members of the Partnership Initiative (PI) “Access to Remedy for (Refugee) Workers” were able to see for themselves the work that project partner MUDEM is doing on
It’s a wrap: Joint webinar series on EU Textile Strategy has come to an end
What started in September 2023 as a joint webinar series by the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles, the Green Button and GIZ FABRIC has now come to an end – leaving the organizational team very satisfied
Improving Grievance Management Systems in the textile sector
The Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST), along with its members Bierbaum-Proenen, CARE Deutschland, Deltex, deuter, ORTOVOX and Sympatex have kick-started a joint project to improve access to complaint mechanisms in China and Vietnam, including the
Webinar-Series: Europe’s Green Transition in the Textile Sector – Green Claims
Hinweis: Diese Webinar-Reihe findet auf Englisch statt. The webinar series of The Partnership for Sustainable Textile and the Green Button on upcoming legislation under the EU Textile Strategy comes to an end! Join us on
Training zu Decent Work für indische Bio-Baumwollproduzent*innen geht in Pilotierung
Im Rahmen der Bündnisinitiative „Bio-Baumwolle in Indien“ wurde im Februar ein wichtiger Meilenstein erreicht: die Umsetzungspartner Organic Cotton Accelerator (OCA) und Traidcraft haben ein Training zum Konzept der Decent Work für Kleinbäuerinnen und -bauern sowie
5th Session of Webinar-Series: Europe’s Green Transition in the Textile Sector
Hinweis: Diese Webinarreihe findet auf Englisch statt Join the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles, the Green Button and FABRIC for the fifth session of our six-months webinar series to learn more about the EU’s Textile Strategy and
4th Session of Webinar Series: Europe’s Green Transition in the Textile Sector
EU Waste Legislation Hinweis: Dieses Webinar findet auf Englisch statt. Join the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles, the Green Button and FABRIC for the fourth session of our six-months webinar series to learn more about the
Webinar-Series: Europes Green Transition in the Textile Sector
Hinweis: Diese Webinarreihe findet auf Englisch statt The webinar series of The Partnership for Sustainable Textile and the Green Button on upcoming legislation under the EU Textile Strategie continues! Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation: A
Steering Committee complete again
As a result of the by-election shortly before Christmas, all seats on the steering committee of the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles have been filled again. Kilian Dieckhoff, Managing Director of Karl Dieckhoff GmbH & Co. KG,
Gender equality and workers’ rights in the textile sector
German multi-stakeholder delegation visits India It was both a moving and affirming moment for the German multi-stakeholder delegation visiting India when Thivya Rakini, President of the Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labor Union (TTCU), spoke about
Position on Minimum Wage Negotiations in Bangladesh
Living Wages & a Right to Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining Worldwide Currently, the minimum wage in Bangladesh is being renegotiated. The minimum wage was last increased in 2018. According to local labour law,
Webinar Series: Europe’s Green Transition in the Textile Sector
The webinar series of The Partnership for Sustainable Textile and the Green Button on upcoming legislation under the EU Textile Strategie goes into the second round – Hinweis: Diese Webinar Reihe findet auf Englisch statt Join
On track towards more supply chain transparency
Supplier list of Textiles Partnership members published The Partnership for Sustainable Textiles welcomes the upload of the current supplier list of the member companies at our partner Open Supply Hub (OSH). The new list covers