Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP) is a not-for-profit 501(c) organization dedicated to promoting ethical, humane, and lawful conditions and practices in manufacturing facilities all around the world. The WRAP certification program mainly focuses on the apparel, footwear and sewn products sectors and is expanding into all labor-intensive sectors, such as hotels, jewelry, furniture, construction and more.
The organization is charted to develop a series of codes and practices governing manufacturing conditions worldwide and is also tasked with licensing independent auditing firms to conduct audits based on those codes and practices. It is not a membership organization, and does not certify brands or businesses, only facilities.
In the interests of impartiality, WRAP's charter requires that a majority of its board members come from outside the apparel industry. Active support is provided by the International Apparel Federation and over 20 additional trade and industry associations.
Over 1,700 factories from 60 countries have participated in WRAP certification alone in 2008. In 2009, WRAP gave its backing to the Tannery of the Year awards programme that seeks to promote best practice in the tanning industry.
