This is useful guidance both for Contractors and Contracting Authorities, as it explains step by step the duties of both parties under the Electronics Watch conditions.  The guidance also provides both parties with an overview of the legal context behind the inclusion and enforceability of such conditions.

--Emma Nicholson, Head of Development and Sustainability, Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges, Scotland

This is a brilliant, easy and wide-ranging guide to put in place due diligence and human rights' accountability in public contracts. It helps buyers to comply with the law, while promoting fair and innovative business. If all public buyers would follow it, public procurement could become a powerful instrument for protecting workers, environment and consumers against the "dark side" of globalism.

--Deborah Russo, Research Fellow in International Law, University of Florence, Italy

By taking into account the views of all parties, Electronics Watch has produced something of real value in the area of protecting the labour rights of workers and a working, living document that will act as guidance for both ourselves and I am sure many others in their discussions with the IT industry.

--Andy Davies, Director, London Universities Purchasing Consortium, UK

In order to align tender criteria with Electronic Watch clauses we find the Contractor guidance extremely useful. It helps us to identify the best possible way to respect both, Electronics Watch clauses, and our national procurement law.

--Michel Rubattel, Secrétaire général du Département des infrastructures et des ressources humaines (DIRH), Etat de Vaud, Switzerland

Through the Guidance Electronics Watch consolidates its unique model. A model which goes beyond current human rights due diligence practices. This is a sort of ‘due diligence plus’ which moves away from the obligation of process established by current international soft-law instruments and national regulation to develop an obligation of result. It is only through this effective and accountable due diligence that we can guarantee human rights are respected in supply chains and violations remediated.

--Dr. Olga Martin-Ortega, Reader in Public International Law, University of Greenwich, Director of the Business, Human Rights and the Environment (BHRE) Research Group, UK

Electronics Watch has developed state-of-the-art guidance for contractors to strengthen respect for labour rights and improve working conditions in factories that produce electronic products for public purchasers. The Electronics Watch guidance surpasses all other procurement standards by virtue of transparency, depth, leverage, and legal sophistication. Contractors that follow the Electronics Watch guidance will soon discover that they gain a competitive advantage as they extend their leverage and build public confidence over time.

-- Robert Stumberg, Professor of Law and Director, Harrison Institute for Public Law, Georgetown Law, United States

The Guidance brings concreteness and structure to an emerging area of social responsibility. Global supply chains are notoriously complex so coming up with limited and actionable responsibilities is essential. The Guidance offers an opportunity to public procurement authorities to step up their efforts and assume a long overdue leadership role by contributing their leverage to supply chains governance.  Public buyers should take note of this opportunity for meaningful collective action.

--Radu Mares, Dr. Docent, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden

We applaud the efforts of Electronics Watch to harness the tremendous potential power of public procurement of electronic devices to improve the working conditions, the respect for their rights, and the lives of electronics workers throughout the global supply chain. The Guidance will motivate and reward brands and suppliers that meet their legal and ethical responsibility to protect the health, safety and rights of electronics workers. The procedures will also help shine a spotlight on those brands and suppliers that continue to threaten workers' health, lives and livelihoods, and help end these abuses in an immensely wealthy industry that has more than enough resources to meet its responsibilities.

--Garrett Brown, MPH, CIH, Coordinator, Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network, United States

This Guidance has been reviewed by leading civil society organisations in the field of labour rights (or, as we say in CEREAL, "labour human rights"). I am very hopeful! This will be a very useful tool to promote better working and living conditions for thousands of workers in production countries and will take socially responsible procurement to higher levels.

--David Foust, Center for Reflection and Action on Labour Issues (CEREAL), Mexico