Social Enterprise · Sustainability Services

Driving Resilient and Sustainable Value Chains at Scale

We help organisations move beyond commitments toward credible, measurable, accessible, and scalable outcomes.

Impact at Scale
Global Reach
675
Factories onboarded
1.2M+
Workers reached
~214K
Women workers trained
60+
Companies engaged
4
Continents of operation
Africa · Asia · Europe · South America

Combining strategic insight with hands-on delivery

IDH Solutions is a social enterprise that partners with businesses, investors, and multilaterals to secure resilient value chains. We combine the strategic capabilities of a social enterprise with practical on-ground delivery — active in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America with deep local presence.

We help organisations navigate rapidly shifting environmental, social, and market dynamics — delivering practical tools, data-driven products, and tailored advisory services.

Implementation Experience

Active across Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America with deep local presence and country-level expertise.

Strong Local & Global Partnerships

Proven ability to convene and align buyers, suppliers, governments, CSOs, and financial actors.

Proven Tools & Methodologies

From assessment to implementation: roadmaps, tools and programme management that deliver measurable results.

Deep Sector & Value Chain Expertise

From farm fields to factory lines: we make value chains work for people and planet.

Our Impact in Numbers

675 Factories onboarded
1.2M+ Workers reached
~214K Women workers trained
60+ Companies engaged

Practical. Evidence-based. Built for scale.

IDH Solutions blends strategic insight with hands-on delivery to drive real market transformation. Our approach is built on four pillars that guide every engagement, in every context.

Practical & Adaptable

Solutions grounded in real operating contexts — not theory. We design for the conditions that exist, then build pathways to the conditions we want.

Stakeholder-Centred Design

We build ownership and long-term capability at every level — from factory floor to boardroom — ensuring transformation is sustained after we leave.

Data-Forwarded & Science-Based

Credible decision-making requires defensible data. We deploy robust diagnostics, rigorous monitoring, and science-aligned methodologies throughout.

Scaling Mindset

From pilots to multi-country, multi-supplier implementation — we design everything to move from proof-of-concept to sector-level transformation.

Modular services, integrated impact

IDH Solutions provides modular, scalable service offerings that help organisations embed sustainability into core operations. We meet partners where they are — and accelerate their path to transformation.

Each service can be deployed standalone or integrated into a broader transformation programme — tailored to organisational ambition and context.

  • 1
    Evidence-based decisions

    Robust data, diagnostics, and insight that enable organisations to act with confidence.

  • 2
    Capability building

    Internal and ecosystem capabilities to deliver sustainable performance over the long term.

  • 3
    Coordination & convening

    Strengthening alignment across complex value-chain networks — brands, suppliers, governments, and financiers.

  • 4
    Continuous improvement at scale

    Driving proven solutions from pilot to systemic, sector-wide implementation.

Four service lines. One integrated offer.

Work With Us
01
Advisory & Delivery

Decent Work & Responsible Production

We design and deliver interventions that create safe, healthy, and empowering work environments — with a focus on measurable, continuous improvement.

  • Capacity building on Living Wage & Salary Matrix
  • Data-driven Living Wage Gap Assessment & Closure
  • Supplier and stakeholder engagement strategy
  • Salary Matrix tool and data analysis
02
Platform Management

Multi-Stakeholder Platform Management

We manage multi-stakeholder platforms across diverse sectors — aligning partners to set, execute, and deliver sector-level sustainability commitments.

  • SIFAV & Sustainable Spices Initiative
  • The Sustainable Juice Covenant
  • LABS (Life and Building Safety Initiative)
  • Sustainable Vanilla Initiative (SVI)
  • Banana Retail Commitment on Living Wage
03
Finance & Investment

Technical Assistance Facility

We accelerate investment-ready, high-impact project pipelines for companies and investors — covering the full project and fund manager cycle.

  • Pre-investment: bankability & investment readiness
  • Post-investment: de-risk and amplify business metrics
  • Knowledge: share lessons across industries & geographies
  • Impact data: defensible, high-quality monitoring metrics
04
Thematic Programme

Child Labour & Gender

We design and deliver targeted interventions that address child labour risks and advance gender equality — creating safer, more inclusive workplaces.

  • Mappings and risk assessment
  • Training, knowledge building & awareness campaigns
  • Ground-level monitoring & grievance mechanisms
  • Responsible procurement practice development
  • Jurisdictional approach to systemic change

Proven at scale, across sectors and geographies

Client · UN Global Compact

Living Wage Digital Curriculum

IDH Solutions created UNGC's learning strategy and digital academy to drive living-wage implementation — informed by insights from 15 companies and their suppliers, focused on practical action-planning across global supply chains.

Client · Unilever

Advancing Living Wage Capability

IDH Solutions created living wage content and training to introduce the Living Wage and Living Wage Partner approach to Unilever's priority suppliers — building capabilities needed to advance living wage commitments across seven priority countries.

Featured Programme

Women's Safety Accelerator

The Women's Safety Accelerator improves workplace safety for women. IDH Solutions partners with brands, producers, suppliers, and local organisations to identify risks, strengthen prevention and response systems, and foster safer, more inclusive workplaces.

~214K
Women workers trained
505K+
Community members reached
60+
Companies engaged
290+
Factories reached

Trusted by leading organisations across sectors

IDH Solutions partners with companies, civil society, and multilateral institutions to develop practical, market-based solutions that strengthen value chains and create inclusive, sustainable impact.

Jumbo
Lidl
Netto
Dirk
DekaMarkt
Colruyt
Aldi Suisse
Morrisons
Coop
ASDA
Marks & Spencer
Sainsbury's
Tesco
John Lewis Partnership
Gap Inc.
Nike
Target
VF Corporation
Walmart
Amazon
Unilever
Hunkemöller
INGKA
Just Brands
HEMA
Wilmar
Innospec
SSP
UN Global Compact
GIZ
RVO
WBCSD

Achieving meaningful sustainability impact takes the right partnerships

By sharing your ambitions and challenges with us, we can co-create solutions tailored to your context and designed for scale.

Contact

Let's build something that lasts

We work with businesses, investors, and multilaterals who are ready to move from sustainability commitments to measurable, scalable action.

Minu Sundaram
Director, IDH Solutions
sundaram@idhtrade.org idhtrade.org
Jessica Leung
Manager, IDH Solutions
leung@idhtrade.org idhtrade.org