Qatar: Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy launches Workers' Welfare Standards, initiates internal and external monitoring for 2022 World Cup contracts
Qatar's Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) is the entity responsbile for overseeing all construction and infrastructure projects for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. In 2013, the SC published a Workers' Charter which outlined principles related to the protection of workers' health, well-being, safety and security. In 2014, SC launched their Workers' Welfare Standards, which are mandatory for contractors working on SC projects and require contractors to ensure compliance by their subcontractors. The SC commenced their internal auditing in the same year, the results of which they release in the form of worker welfare reports on a semi-annual basis. The Standards were updated in 2016 , when the SC announced joint inspections and independent monitoring for their World Cup contracts.
Impactt Ltd, a global consultancy firm, is the external monitor for all auditing and inspection processes of the SC's Workers’ Welfare Standards that are incorporated into all 2022 World Cup contracts. Impactt released their first Annual External Compliance report in April 2017 and the second in February 2018.
Building and Wood Worker's International (BWI), the global trade union for construction workers, is conducting joint labour and accommodation inspections. The first joint annual report on joint inspections was published in January 2018. The second was published in February 2019.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre have collated all related reporting below.
LATEST REPORTS
- The Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy's Sixth Annual Workers' Welfare Progress Reports (January - December 2020)
- April 2021: Annual External Compliance Report of the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy's Workers' Welfare Standards: Resilience in testing times, Impactt
- SC & Building and Wood Workers' International Report- December 2020
- March 2020: The Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy's Fifth Annual Workers' Welfare Progress Report (Feb - Dec 2020)
- February 2020: Annual External Compliance Report of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy's Workers' Welfare Standards, Impactt
- October 2019: Study suggests heat mitigation strategies can allow workers to perform roles safely, despite extreme conditions
- January 2018 - February 2019: The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy's Fourth Annual Workers' Welfare Progress Report
- February 2019: Annual External Compliance Report of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy's Workers' Welfare Standards, Impactt
- February 2019: The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy and Building and Wood Workers' International, Joint Working Group 2018 Report
- March 2018: The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy's Third Annual Workers' Welfare Progress Report (March 2017 - January 2018)
- February 2018: Annual External Compliance Report of the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy’s Workers’ Welfare Standards, Impactt
- January 2018: The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy and Building and Wood Workers' International, Joint Working Group 2017 Report
- April 2017: Annual External Compliance Report of the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy’s Workers’ Welfare Standards, Impactt
- January 2016 - February 2017: The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy's Second Annual Workers' Welfare Progress Report
- April - December 2015: The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy's Workers' Welfare Progress Report
- October 2014 - March 2015: The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy's Semi-Annual Workers' Welfare Compliance Report
- September 2014: The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy's Semi-Annual Workers' Welfare Compliance Report