WRAP – Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production

WRAP is the largest third-party certification program for the sewn products sector. A non-profit global organization with years of experience in social compliance. WRAP certification is accepted by most buyers. A facility can satisfy multiple clients with a single WRAP audit. WRAP is a certification program. By achieving a WRAP certificate, you show current and future buyers that your facility meets or exceeds internationally recognized standards for social compliance. All WRAP-certified facilities have the option to be listed on WRAP’s website, permitting buyers to locate your facility and see it is WRAP-certified. This provides a level of assurance to potential buyers that is widely recognized and accepted. WRAP will help to secure your supply chain, you can raise your profile in the eyes of some of the notable brands and retailers that accept WRAP audits. A WRAP certification also includes Principle 12, Security, which is benchmarked to the minimum-security requirements under the CTPAT program. This can avoid the need for a separate supply chain security audit.

The WRAP Principles are based on generally accepted international workplace standards, local laws and workplace regulations, and include the spirit or language of relevant conventions of the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. The WRAP Certification Program’s objective is to independently monitor and certify compliance with these standards, to ensure that sewn products are being produced under safe, lawful, humane, and ethical conditions.

GCL International is an accredited Monitor Firm in Turkey, Myanmar, Pakistan and Thailand to provide social compliance audits and related services including follow-up assessments, desktop assessments, post-certification assessments, and other reports according to the WRAP certification program requirements and the WRAP Auditor Handbook for sewn-products manufacturing supply chain facilities and other related industries as they may be amended from time to time.

GCL International only engages WRAP Approved Auditors with APSCA Membership to conduct WRAP audits, as per WRAP requirements. GCL conducts all WRAP activities with the highest degree of honesty, transparency, and commitment to WRAP values and Principles.