2024 Annual report: Collaborative Action toward Gender Equality in Supply Chains

In 2024, our second year, we started the implementation of a new Strategic Plan that will guide us through 2026. The plan allows RISE to create opportunities and remove immediate barriers for women workers and business. It also sets the direction toward resolving deeper systemic issues that prevent women workers from realizing their inherent right to dignity. Our goal is to support an additional 1.5 million workers by 2026. Between our partners, members and supporters, we’re well on our way.

We are excited to continue to grow our impact by increasing the number of new workplaces where we deliver our work, thus increasing the number of workers we support. This is made possible through our growing membership — we were thrilled to welcome our first supplier members this year. We are also expanding our geographic reach to include Indonesia and Guatemala, while also starting to test ways of scaling deeper into the supply chain.

In 2024, we navigated a cautious and polarized environment. As we enter 2025, we do so both knowing that the operating environment will remain uncertain and holding steadfast conviction in the importance of our work. Across our interconnected priorities at RISE — freedom from fear of gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work, increasing the financial health and resilience of workers and expanding opportunities for women for advancement and leadership — your partnership makes it possible for us to continue to advance toward fairness and equality. This will allow women and men workers and factories to better respond to the challenges of today. And those of tomorrow.

Collaboration is and will remain at the heart of our shared success. RISE is proudly becoming a platform that unites stakeholders who work on different aspects of gender equality within and across the garment, footwear and home textile supply chain. Centering ourselves in the realities, needs and priorities of women workers, and bringing together the perspective of women’s organizations, workers’ representative groups, suppliers, brands, buyers and many more, we are identifying new solutions to advance gender equality. Together.

On behalf of the RISE team, I extend my thanks to the partners and members who are working with us on this mission.

Christine Svarer
Executive Director of RISE

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