ISEAL has developed a good practice guide to help ensure that sustainability claims made by jurisdictions, landscape initiatives, and the companies that source from or support them, are credible. The guidance covers the structural and performance claims a jurisdictional entity may wish to make, along with the supporting action claims of other related stakeholders.

ISEAL has developed a draft good practice framework to support sustainability systems to strengthen the effectiveness of improvement strategies.

Sustainability systems (such as voluntary sustainability standard and certification schemes) are increasing their efforts to advance gender equality, recognising its importance both as a fundamental human right and as a means to achieving other aspects of sustainability. This toolkit aims to support these systems to advance their thinking and action on gender equality by compiling curated resources and practical case studies.

This file provides a high-level summary of the differences between the ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Sustainability Systems v1.0, and the ISEAL Impacts, Standard-Setting, and Assurance Codes of Good Practice (v2, v6, and v2, respectively). It also highlights essential practices extracted from the ISEAL Sustainability Claims Good Practice Guide. 

A study to identify the prospect on incentive design for the uptake of water stewardship in Indonesia. The report looks at the existing government and financial sector landscape, as well as some best practices of financing mechanisms and incentives in the region and globally. A set of high-level recommendations are provided to support government and financial institutions in Indonesia to drive more incentive for good water stewardship uptake in Indonesia.

A study to identify the prospect on incentive design for the uptake of water stewardship in Indonesia. The report looks at the existing government and financial sector landscape, as well as some best practices of financing mechanisms and incentives in the region and globally. A set of high-level recommendations are provided to support government and financial institutions in Indonesia to drive more incentive for good water stewardship uptake in Indonesia.

Find out more about the requirements that ISEAL Community Members need to fulfil to reach Code Compliant status.

This file provides an overview of changes between each draft of the ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Sustainability Systems. It also includes the corresponding requirements from the ISEAL Assurance, Impacts, and Standard-Setting Code of Good Practice, and ISEAL Sustainability Claims Good Practice Guide.

This document sets out what our Code Compliant status recognises for our Community Members.

This document provides an overview of the development of the ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Sustainability Systems (the ISEAL Code). It includes a summary of the consultations on the first and second drafts of the ISEAL Code, and an overview of key changes from the existing Codes of Good Practice. We would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on the drafts, and to those who supported the consultations by engaging with events and sharing information about the consultations with colleagues and stakeholders.

The latest version of ISEAL Code of Conduct at events. 

Interpretation of the clause 6.4.3 on recognition of existing standards.

Applicants to ISEAL Community Membership agree to abide by the Community Code of Conduct.

In 2019, the ISEAL Innovations Fund awarded a grant to Bonsucro to collaboratively develop and test methodologies to help financial service providers improve how they assess their agricultural clients’ sustainability performance, to enable access to better financing opportunities for farmers who produce sustainably. Project partners included the Better Cotton Initiative, and the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS).

ISEAL Community Members can claim to be ISEAL Code Compliant only when they have demonstrated adherence to the baseline and improvement criteria of each of ISEAL’s Codes of Good Practice in accordance with the processes and definitions in this procedure.

In 2019, ISEAL carried out a review of the Standard-Setting and Impacts Codes. Through the review, ISEAL gathered information regarding the usability of the Codes, their effectiveness in delivering against their objectives, as well as their scope and objectives. This document details the activities carried out as part of the review and the findings.

This resource presents a summary of the one-on-one interviews with ISEAL members and select other sustainability initiatives as part of the project on remote auditing practices and assurance responses to COVID-19.

Travaillez-vous ou interagissez-vous avec des normes de durabilité et des systèmes similaires ? Aidez-nous à façonner leurs performances futures en nous donnant votre avis sur le code de bonne pratique révisé de l'ISEAL.

ISEAL developed a framework for credible living wage claims following input from a range of standard setting organisations, companies and trade unions. It focuses on claims about living wages and guides credibility in sustainability communication. Since January 2021, ISEAL has worked with sustainability systems to strengthen their approaches in supporting supply chain action on living wages.

An introduction to comparing and benchmarking sustainability standards systems

This document includes considerations and a set of guiding questions designed to support the inclusion of the indicators in the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) systems of Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) and other organisations.