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March 2, 2026
This good practice highlights that developing and incorporating gender-related criteria into ecolabels and certification schemes can strengthen efforts to promote equal pay, non-discrimination, fair treatment, and equitable opportunities for career advancement across supply chains. In the context of public procurement, integrating such criteria — including through the use of ecolabels and certifications — provides a practical pathway for governments to support suppliers that adopt gender-inclusive practices and to align purchasing decisions with national and international commitments to gender equality. Relevant examples include FSC, OEKO-TEX STeP, Fairtrade, ChileCompra, Colombia Compra Eficiente, Brazil’s Public Procurement and Contracting Law, and Mexico’s Public Sector Procurement Law.
This series of good practices reflects experiences on ecolabelling, sustainable public procurement, or the joint use of ecolabelling and sustainable public procurement that have demonstrated positive impacts on fostering sustainable consumption and production — for this reason, they are called "good practices.” These good practices aim to promote global exchange by providing information and examples of various approaches that entities from different countries and contexts can apply to strengthen the use of ecolabels and sustainable public procurement. They were developed as an outcome of the Working Group on Ecolabelling from the Consumer Information Programme, under the One Planet network, and the EcoAdvance project, jointly implemented by the German Cooperation for Development (GIZ), the United Nations for Environmental Protection (UNEP), and the Oeko Institute, funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN), and the International Climate Initiative (IKI).
Learn more at One Planet Network knowledge webpage.
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