Then you should get into negotiations with the corporations and the buyers. When, after negotiations, the team of consultants and inspectors has been formed, and you have set up systems of labelling or certificates, you then need to figure out how that system should evolve. Simultaneous to this process is the ongoing networking with groups in U.S. and Europe, campaigning, lobbying of importers, media, the government and trade unions. Freddy Mpofu of the national union for the clothing industry NUCI in Zimbabwe explains that at the moment only a little monitoring of a few factories had taken place, mostly at the request of the CCC and some other groups. Much work remains to be done such as initiating evening meetings with shop stewards which will include information on campaigning.
Communications is a big problem with regards to networking in Zimbabwe.
The trade unions have no fax or e-mail. However the union is prepared to move forward. Rosario Bella Guzman of the IBON Resource Center in the Philippines raises the question of the role of NGOs in independent monitoring networks. First of all IBON got involved in the CCC on a contractual basis for research. A network is not an organisation.