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You can be creative in your use of the themes, and you should feel free to adapt them to the context, audience and groups you are working with. This also means you do not always have to use the whole set of themes: you can choose those that are most relevant to your organisation or you work.

Guiding questions

There is a set of guiding questions to provoke discussion under each theme.

When using all the themes: You may want to structure the discussions around the theme through the use of guiding questions. Below, you will find a list of questions that may be helpful. You do not have to use these question, you can think of alternatives ones, or you can choose only those that are the most relevant to your organisation.

• What concrete issues facing workers / trade unions / citizens does the theme bring to mind?

• What in the industry needs to change to address the issues addressed (or other related issues you identified) ?

• What do trade unions, workers and activists need in order to address the issues referred to ?

• How can the global movement of workers, activists and environmentalists working on the garment sector organise and work together to achieve the change needed?

• What do fashion brands need to change in their practices for the issues to be addressed?

• If you have to describe the issues referred to in the theme in thirty years, how would the situation look like? What would have changed?

• Are there issues that are not captured by the theme(s)?

How to collect and share input from offline discussions?

You can use the prompts offline in workshops or meetings for example. You use this copy of a presentation containing all the prompts, as well as a black and white version for printing.

The input collected through the discussion offline will be used by the Manifesto editorial committee to draft the text of the Manifesto. For this reason, it is important that the text is typed in a way that is clear and understandable.

The input does not need to contain ‘minutes’ of the conversations. On the contrary, it would be ideal if facilitators who collect the inputs can:

• Summarise the main ideas / issues / actions that have come out of the discussion. Example: “Participants agreed one of the main issues is that workers are not paid a living wage, and that brands’ transition plans do not include payment of a living wage. We need to campaign together with consumers to make living wages an integral part of transition plans”

• If you use guiding questions, it can be useful to use them in your reporting and to frame the text as an answer to the question. Example: “Question: What do unions, workers and activists need in order to address the issues referred to in the theme? Answer: Participants agree we need strong alliances and a common forum for workers and wearers to come together and strategise”

• Remember to reference what prompt the input is linked to. If the input is linked to a new theme, please share the theme when submitting your input. 

• If there are contradictory contributions, but those contradictions can be solved and a consensus reached in the meeting, share the consensus points. If contradictions cannot be solved and consensus cannot be reached, feel free to share the contentious points and differences that exist in the group.

• Feel free to attach any additional resources, information or materials that participants wish to share together with their input.