ECHO Regional Committees
Enabling Child and Human Rights with Seed Organizations (ECHO) was established in 2019, through the cooperation of the Seed organizations, with the aim of promoting ethical seed production supply chain practices, to enable decent workplace standards and human rights protection in the seed supply chain.
As seed supply chain operations are spread across different states, there is a necessity to formulate regional committees across major seed production locations, duly involving local seed production representatives to drive various initiatives as mandated by ECHO Central office from time to time in alignment with ECHO’s vision, mission and objectives.
With this background, the following regional committees are formulated, spearheaded by a Convenor, Co-convenor and members representing different seed companies. A few other local companies/their representatives are also enrolled under the non-member category.
Role of Convenor and Co-convenor:
- Convenor is the single point of contact for the ECHO central office for respective
regions to champion and drive local initiatives. - Motivate members and local company representatives to implement ECHO
initiatives. - Communicate relevant information to all local stakeholders as shared by the ECHO
central office. - Document and share local events, trainings and identified local best practices.
- Co- convenor to support the Convenor in delivering different responsibilities.
Broadly, the responsibilities of ECHO regional committees include:
- Organizing common events in key identified seed production locations.
- Celebrate national and international days related to decent work, such as Human
Rights Day, World Day against child labour day, Children’s Day etc., - Conducting farmers, farm labour trainings on decent work standards in common
production villages. - Facilitating trainings, research studies and audits as proposed by the ECHO Executive
committee. - Conducting regional ECHO meetings as guided by the ECHO central office.
- Identifying best practices around decent workplace standards and sharing them.
- Identifying community development/CSR project needs and to share for designing
collaborative community projects. - Liaise as appropriate with local government bodies on decent work-related issues,
government orders etc., - Engage in other activities that may be required to achieve the ECHO’s objectives.
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