Private Sector Action & the Accountability Platform

UAP advances women’s health and worker wellbeing within the supply chains of global corporations as a fundamental component of women’s empowerment & gender equality.

UAP is working with civil society and corporate partners to come together in new ways to push for accountability in the investments and environment, social and governance (ESG) goals of companies, and to ensure partnerships are matched by progress. In 2023, we kicked off our Accountability Platform for women’s health and empowerment to address the need for broader and systemic change. 

The Platform is part of our flagship initiative, Private Sector Action for Women’s Health and Empowerment (PSA). Since 2017, PSA has built a framework for measurable corporate action on women workers’ health rights in manufacturing and agricultural workplaces, in global and national standards and in workplace policies and programs. This work includes:

• Groundbreaking research on workplace programs in India and Kenya and responsible sourcing globally while documenting evidence for the business case for workplace women’s health.

• Regional convenings for intelligence sharing and collective action.

• Support for the development of UNFPA’s ROI tool to estimate the returns from health initiatives in workplaces and of e-learning tools for workers on women’s health with SWASTI in India.

• Support for Technical assistance and advocacy on health and gender equality standards, including with the 2021 Gender Benchmark of the World Benchmarking Alliance.