JUST TRANSITION DESIGN LABS
Programme best suited to: Sustainability, Compliance and CSR professionals, waste management professionals, fashion experts and business leaders, creatives and policymakers.
As part of the European Green New Deal and the EU Textile Strategy, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive will standardise ESG reporting.
Join the Just Transition Design Labs from June 7th - 29th July 2025.
Protect your fashion company’s ability to trade within the EU and tackle textile waste impacts in emerging markets through circular economy inclusion.
Innovate and increase your impact with creative end-of-life supply chain engagement in second-hand fashion sectors in emerging markets.
COURSE DETAILS
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In this session, you will be introduced to the instructor, Enna Uwaifo, and what you expect from the course.
We will dive into the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and what it means for businesses in the apparel and footwear industry.
As well as, discuss the evolutionary potential of creative supply chain engagement for meaningful impact in compliance.
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In this session, you will be introduced to the B.E.L.L Framework and use the Kantamanto Market case study to explore how it can be used for end-of-life supply chain engagement.
You will gain more understanding of end-of-life supply chain risks in informal second-hand fashion markets in Accra, Ghana and Johannesburg, South Africa with a guest speak with on-the-ground expertise.
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In this session, we will explore how apply design thinking and creative thinking into bottom-up approaches to supply chain engagement.
We will take a creative turn explore African/afro-diasporic artistic industries to understand bottom-up value creation and global trade in the creative industry.
We will focus on possibilities of creative end-of-life supply chain engagement through working with creative communities to meet CSRD reporting standards.
In this session, you will allocated into your teams to develop the creative end-of-life supply chain communications action plan and concept.
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In this session, we will explore what it means to create real-world value for communities working within informal trades in Ghana and South Africa CSRD as a tool for circular economy investment
We will review circular economy plans in Ghana and South Africa and the potential for strategic investment for circular economy inclusion in the two emerging markets.
You will continue to develop your creative supply chain engagement action plan and concept in your groups and create a plan within group to develop the product.
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After week 4, in your groups, you will be tasked with developing your creative communications action plan and concept for either informal second-hand trader engagement in Accra, Ghana or Johannesburg, South Africa.
You will be expected to meet with group members every week to develop your action plan and concept.
Each week, you will have a 30-min check in with Enna Uwaifo to check your progress and ask any questions for your project.
You will also be matched and introduced to your student mentee from minoritised background to support career exposure in the environmental and climate sector.
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This is the last session of the programme, you will present your creative end-of-life supply chain engagement action plan and concept to the rest of the cohort and a panel of creative expert judges (TBC) to evaluate its on-the-ground engagement potential.
Then there will have an evaluation of the programme to improve for next time.
For those based in the UK, we will have in-person celebratory dinner in London (TBC)
CHECK IF YOUR BUSINESS IS REQUIRED OR WILL SOON BE REQUIRED TO REPORT UNDER THE EU’S CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING DIRECTIVE?
As part of the European Green New Deal and the EU Textile Strategy, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive will standardise ESG reporting.
Every listed apparel and footwear company (bar micro-enterprises) that sells apparel and footwear that sells into the EU will be required to report under CSRD.
Many companies will struggle with capturing end-of-life/post-consumer waste impacts without focused skills development in end-of-life supply chain education.
Introducing the Just Transition Design Labs - Project Based Learning
Through the Just Transition Design Labs, you will create a creative supply chain engagement action plan and concept. You will be upskilled in textile waste supply chain risks and creative engagement to better enable you to create impact with CSRD and use regulatory compliance as a tool to facilitate strategic investment in informal end-of-life second-hand trades in Africa for circular economy inclusion.
We also want you to help with upskilling your future talent pool with the programme by introducing aspiring professionals into your professional network for ongoing self-directed mentorship and access to opportunities.
The programme
Diversify your talent pool and get ahead of deep impact and regulatory risk management
Details
When: June 7th 2025 - July 25th 2025
Where: Online (Zoom)
Time: Saturdays 11am - 2pm
Through our end-of-life supply chain project-based learning programme “Just Transition Design Lab”, we want to create the groundwork to leverage the fashion industry and waste management industry to guarantee compliance with Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, whilst facilitating opportunities for strategic investment in informal circular economies in Africa.
Immersive learning environment for deep impact
We want to create the learning environment for professionals to tackle end-of-life supply chain risks, such as: unmanaged waste systems, child labour risks, modern slavery risks and the urgency for a Just Transition using bottom-up design and creative thinking methods.
Through the Just Transition Design Labs, you will be upskilled in textile waste supply chain risks and creative methods engagement to better enable you to create impact with CSRD and ensure true action-focused compliance.
Course structure
This is a project-based learning course, the sessions will run for 3 hours every Saturday afternoon online. From week 1-4, Enna Uwaifo will teach live for 1 hour and 30 mins, with a break in between and then you will be given mini-projects to work on in the session and at home. Then week 5-8, you will work on creative supply chain engagement action plan and concept in your allocated groups and present your idea on week 8 to the cohort and surprise panel of expert judges.
Cohort 1 programme
The programme focuses on practitioners building the skills to develop a creative communication entry point product for end-of-life supply chain engagement. This seeks to facilitate an exploration of what strategic investment for circular economy inclusion in informal second-hand fashion economies could look like emerging markets using CSRD. The emerging market case study focus will be Ghana and South Africa.
Diversifying your talent pool with early exposure
We also want to address racial diversity gaps in the environment and climate sector. The sector has the second-worst record in racial equality in the UK. We will introduce young aspiring professionals from minoritised backgrounds with an interest in environmental and climate careers to you. This is for self-directed mentorship and supporting young diverse professionals to access to opportunities.
Learning outcomes
To learn the basics CSRD reporting, end-of-life supply chain transparency and Scope 3 environmental impacts
To explore bottom-up design thinking and creative methods to supply chain engagement in emerging markets and under-engaged communities.
To develop competency in creating real-world socio-economic value as well as, environmental value for communities that face the brunt of the environmental and climate crisis through exploring strategic investment for inclusion in the circular economy
To build creative and cultural supply chain engagement action plan and concept for entry points into supply chain engagement that empowers informal business communities to engage in supply chain transparency processes.