This is a standardised metadata set that provides a common code for search and discovery to improve the flow of sustainability information.

This round is now closed. In August 2025 The ISEAL Innovations Fund invited Expressions of Interest for projects that respond to the theme: Market mechanisms for transferring value to small-scale producers and SMEs.This Call for EOIs document contains all the information our members need to apply. Please note: EOIs must be submitted by an ISEAL Community Member, though non-member organisations can be named as project lead. Please also find links to download a brief Summary of this Call, as well as additional guidance documents for this funding round.

This resource includes the recording, slides and agenda of the first learning workshop of the remote auditing project.

A matrix of indicators for use with farm owners and when using the ODK Mobile App, as part of the Blueprint Project. 

This document directs public and private sector stakeholders on deriving sustainability information and messages from the data collected on agricultural commodities production.

This document represents a short ‘start here’ level introduction to the ‘Accounting & Reporting the Emissions of Certified Commodities’ suite of guidance documents. This document is specifically aimed at buyers of certified commodities as users, stakeholders, participants and license holders of ISEAL member schemes or other sustainability systems.

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This research briefing explores the growing use of voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) in free trade agreements (FTAs), and the challenges and opportunities for scaling the use of VSS in trade more generally. Based on a partnership between ISEAL and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), we explore the use of voluntary market based instruments in promoting sustainable trade, production and consumption.

This document identifies the Traceability and Chain of Custody options available for improvers' products, as identified through the ASC Improver Programme pilot. 

The ISEAL Innovations Fund supports sustainability systems to drive collective action on key sustainability challenges. 

A document describing the key findings from Training Needs and Landscape  Assessment of Shrimp Sector in East Java, Indonesia, as part of the Innovations Fund project Integration of Seafood Certification and Jurisdictional Assurance Models, supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

Read our blog, Deforestation-free supply chains: The role of declaration in excess.

We are excited to launch the revision of the ISEAL Chain of Custody (CoC) Definitions and Models Guidance. The revision process will include:

This resource includes the recording and slides of the second learning workshop of the remote auditing project.

Between 29 September and 5 October 2021, Helvetas conducted a stakeholder consultation of the project "Sustainable Cocoa Landscapes in San Martin". The consultation was carried out through face-to-face workshops in the different districts of the province. This resulted in the prioritization of social issues to be taken forward by the project. 

Report produced for the ISEAL Alliance Innovations Fund project “Integrating new data to improve risk assessments and detection of forced labour vulnerability in agricultural supply chains”.

This Excel document outlines all the Delta indicators, with their respective data points and data collection templates, as well as some reporting examples.

The ISEAL Innovations Fund supports sustainability systems to drive collective action on key sustainability challenges. 

This page contains the final project outputs of the Expanding the Blueprint tool project, run by Sustainable Agriculture Network from September 2023-May 2024.

In an Innovations Fund supported project from September 2023-November 2024, sought to support companies to assess and address human rights risks and impacts in the botanicals sector, and jumpstart scheme-level improvements. Through a gap assessment, UEBT identified points for improvement in their existing frameworks. Training materials developed were used to build internal capacity, and within companies in Turkey’s high-risk supply chains.

This roadmap is developed to provide a pathway for all members of the IWSN to achieve the vision and mission of the network which has been aligned with the vision and mission of AWS Global Strategy. The roadmap acts as work program of IWSN which is set in 3 years timeline. The roadmap will help to: Provide clear result framework for IWSN Provide SMART milestones for IWSN

FPIC-360° is an Equitable Origin initiative in partnership with the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) and the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA).  The FPIC-360° Tool for monitoring and verifying free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) is a multi-pronged tool, founded on the premise that FPIC can only be conducted responsibly and successfully if the Indigenous Peoples affected by a proposed project are co-owners and implementers of the entire process, from design, through implementation and monitoring phases.