Innovations Fund project portfolio
The Innovations Fund supports projects that explore and test innovative approaches to strengthening the impact and effectiveness of sustainability systems. Explore these projects below, and access available outputs and learnings.
Forming an alliance of global sustainability organisations to share risk information
Sustainable Biomass Program are working in partnership to enhance the availability of credible, high-quality risk data covering diverse commodities, sectors, and geographies (January 2024-December 2025).
Developing a sustainability performance dashboard for the finance sector
Aquaculture Stewardship Council are leading a project (April 2024 to April 2026) to create and pilot a dashboard for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance reporting by providing sustainability metrics...
Strengthening remediation solutions to child labour
GoodWeave are leading a project (April 2024 to November 2025) to explore ways to improve the remediation options offered to adolescent workers (under the age of 18 years old) by...
Facilitating rightsholder dialogue in human rights and environmental due diligence
Fairtrade International are piloting an approach from January 2024-December 2025, to strengthen direct, meaningful dialogue between brands or retailers with rightsholder groups, facilitated by a sustainability scheme.
Developing climate-related traceability systems for complex value chains
Forest Stewardship Council (January 2024-March 2026) are developing best practices and pilot new procedures for building in the traceability of climate risk and greenhouse gas emissions data across complex commodity...
Enhancing due diligence multi-level reporting
Through this project (January 2024-December 2025) Global Infrastructure Basel aims to bridge the gap between evolving sustainability regulations, whilst promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing, and effective due diligence between ISEAL members.
Embedding worker-led approaches into human rights due diligence
Rainforest Alliance are leading a pilot (January 2024-March 2025) of training modules for workers and managers engaged with agricultural sustainability systems.
Strengthening knowledge on insetting practices
Climate Neutral Group led a project between September 2023-April 2024, to strengthen their knowledge of existing insetting practices across the agriculture sector.
Expanding a blueprint for sustainable landscapes
Between September 2023 - May 2024, Sustainable Agriculture Network applied and adapted their Blueprint landscape sustainability assessment tool in a new region of Colombia, where agricultural production threatens the livelihoods...
Detecting forced labour in ready-made garment supply chains
Through this project (September 2023-August 2024), GoodWeave refined their framework for rapidly detecting forced and bonded labour within supply chains, for application in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh.
