Beyond Compliance: Building Gender-Responsive Supply Chains Through Strategic Supplier Engagement

Course

Supply chains play a critical role in advancing gender equality and creating long-term business value. By moving beyond compliance-driven procurement and fostering meaningful supplier partnerships, companies can strengthen resilience, improve performance and expand economic opportunities for women throughout their value chains.

In this course, you will explore how strategic supplier engagement can accelerate progress on gender equality across global supply chains. Hosted as part of the United Nations Global Compact's annual Countdown to International Women's Day learning journey, the course focuses on practical approaches to building supplier capacity, strengthening collaboration and embedding gender-responsive procurement practices. Participants will gain actionable strategies to build the internal business case, overcome common implementation challenges and scale impact across complex value chains.

What you will learn

• Understand how supplier engagement can advance gender equality across global supply chains.
• Learn practical strategies for building meaningful supplier partnerships beyond compliance.
• Explore approaches to embedding gender-responsive procurement practices throughout the value chain.
• Develop the business case for investing in supplier engagement and women's economic empowerment.
• Identify common barriers to implementation and strategies to overcome them.
• Discover how to scale gender-responsive practices across complex global supply chains.

Who should take this course

This course is ideal for professionals responsible for driving sustainable procurement, strengthening supplier relationships and advancing responsible business practices across global value chains, including:

• Supply Chain & Procurement Professionals
• Sustainability Professionals
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Professionals
• Strategic Planning & Business Development Professionals
• Governance Professionals
• Reporting & Disclosure Professionals
• Ethics & Compliance Professionals

Certificate

A certificate is available upon completion.