The Office of Government Procurement (OGP), responsible for public procurement policy and Central Purchasing Body for ICT products (among other categories) in Ireland, has recently affiliated to Electronics Watch.

Electronics Watch is expanding the scope of its affiliation model to include low emission vehicles (LEV), a major step forward in our efforts to advance responsible public procurement. From January 2026, public buyers will be able to affiliate to Electronics Watch for one or both purchasing categories, electronics and/or automotive.

Read our latest case study, which shares lessons learned from a market engagement event organised as part of the Low Emission Vehicle Programme (LEVP).

Our latest Impact Story explores how ongoing multistakeholder engagement improved conditions for migrant workers, who were living in overcrowded, unhygienic dormitories at a factory in Malaysia.

Our annual end-of-year event has become a much-anticipated moment in the public procurement and human rights calendar. While last year we gathered in Brussels for an in-person conference, every other year we go online to make sure everyone can join us. And this year we have an extra reason to celebrate — it's our 10th anniversary!

Electronics Watch is delighted to welcome Transport for NSW (TfNSW), the lead agency of the New South Wales Transport cluster in Australia, to our Low Emission Vehicles (LEV) Programme and, starting next year, as an affiliate.

As part of its support for worker-led initiatives tackling forced labour, the ElectroPower project is offering grants to groups that promote fair and safe working conditions in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Remedy is an essential but often overlooked element of corporate due diligence. To tackle this gap, Electronics Watch and the GIZ Initiative for Global Solidarity (IGS) collaborated between 2022 to 2024 to improve workers' access to an effective grievance mecha­nism in electronics supply chains.

The practice of human rights due diligence has been the theme of 2024. Our Annual Report focused on its prerequisites: increasing supply chain transparency for workers and public buyers; collecting credible evidence for rights violations; and coordinating meaningful engagement with workers and their representatives to remedy rights violations in public supply chains.

Electronics Watch is happy to welcome five new trustees. Three represent affiliated public buyers: Richard Ellis of Monash University in Australia, Peter Norhstedt of Adda Central Purchasing Body in Sweden, and Victor Torrents of the Association of Catalan Municipalities. Two are worker representatives: Nadia de Leon of the Institute for Occupational Health and Safety Development in the Philippines and Lennon Wong of Serve the People Association in Taiwan. They all bring leadership experience and expertise in a range of areas related to public procurement or international labour rights.