IDH

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IDH is actively addressing the gender pay gap by embedding gender equality into its broader agenda of sustainable trade and decent work. Through its Decent Work and Wages focus area, IDH collaborates with businesses and public-private partnerships to promote fair compensation, safe and inclusive workplaces, and resilient value chains. These efforts are designed to impact living wage gaps, including disparities affecting women. 

A core part of IDH’s approach involves gender-transformative interventions. Rather than simply integrating gender-neutral policies, IDH works with businesses and stakeholders to address barriers in market participation and promote practices that strengthen opportunities and outcomes for women. For example, its Gender Assessment Tool and Gender Transformative Business Model Innovation Guide offer practical guidance and tools that help integrate gender considerations into supply chain practices, ensuring women benefit equally from interventions.

IDH also uses data-driven tools to measure and address pay inequalities. The IDH Living Wage Road Map assesses remuneration—including wages and benefits—across job categories and computes living wage gaps with gender-disaggregated data. This enables stakeholders to identify and target gender-based discrepancies in pay more effectively. IDH tracks gender-disaggregated data across its Better Jobs, Better Income, and Better Environment agendas to monitor progress and support accountability. The organization specifically monitors improved working conditions and wage outcomes for women, ensuring sector-level accountability.

EPIC is highly relevant to IDH because it directly aligns with IDH’s mission on promoting fair compensation, safe and inclusive workplaces, and resilient value chains, with gender as a critical part of the mission. Both organizations aim to ensure fair pay and reduce wage gaps, and being part of EPIC connects IDH’s gender-equitable living wage work to a global coalition with the same goals. This alignment strengthens IDH’s credibility and amplifies its voice on the international stage. 

Membership in EPIC also creates valuable opportunities for knowledge exchange. The coalition brings together insights, tools, and best practices from governments, international organizations like the ILO, OECD, and UN Women, as well as peer institutions. These resources help enrich IDH’s methodologies and advisory work, grounding its interventions in global evidence and shared learning. 

EPIC further increases IDH’s visibility by providing a platform to present its tools and initiatives to an international audience. This not only highlights IDH’s leadership ongender and wage equity in supply chains but also opens doors to new partnerships and collaborations that can scale its impact. 

Finally, EPIC serves as a platform for influence and advocacy. Through technical meetings, working groups, and joint campaigns, IDH can shape the global conversation on equal pay. This allows IDH work to contribute not only to business-level change but also to broader systemic progress.