Description/achievement of initiative
The objective of this initiative is to rebrand the modeling industry from a fast fashion focused system of "fashion models" into a system that embodies restoration of Nature through communications, catapulting the fashion industry into its next era⏤the novelmodel age of restoration, regeneration and sustainability. This will provide relief from the world's obsession with fast fashion and unsustainable practices by educating each novelmodel on what it will take to make a difference. The objective is to employ novelmodels around the globe to stand up and rewrite fashion narratives, and the rest of the industry will follow.
Implementation methodologies
Workers are pushing for ethical fashion and sustainability. The world's population is pushing for ethical fashion and sustainability. More designers are beginning to push harder for ethical fashion and sustainability and B Corp status. Consumers are also waking up and demanding ethical fashion and sustainability. \r\n\r\nTherefore, our Bookers and Agents, also trained by the same programs and institutions training and educating novelmodels, will seek to uphold The Novelmodel Era Representation Initiative (TNERI) of core values, principles and goals. Our entire team of professionals continuously looking for new ways to partner with ethical fashion labels, sustainable designers, and intentional, purposeful product makers and initiatives who are also committed to implementing and carrying out TNERI's goals as well as the Sustainable Development Goals.
Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer
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Coordination mechanisms/governance structure
The Novelmodel Era Representation Initiative (TNERI) is governed by a first-of-its-kind mother agency that operates similar to other mother agencies, however with several main differences. This initiative is governed by the Executive Manager and Founder of NOVELMODELS LLC. Novelmodels will be trained, mentored and educated on a range of topics that are outside the scope of strictly fashion / catwalk / runway / portfolio building. We will partner with select sustainability programs / institutions such as Fashion Values, Cedar Coast Field Station, etc., that will give each model a deeper understanding of what we as their agency requires of them, in order to be represented by us.
Partner(s)
United HOUSE Studios Inc., NOVELMODELS LLC
Progress reports
Goal 1
1.4 - By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
Goal 2
2.3 - By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
Goal 3
3.9 - By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination
Goal 4
4.2 - By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education
4.4 - By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
4.5 - By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations
4.7 - By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
4.a - Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all
Goal 5
5.1 - End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
Goal 7
7.1 - By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services
Goal 8
8.5 - By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
Goal 9
9.4 - By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities
Goal 10
10.1 - By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average
10.2 - By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
10.3 - Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard
10.4 - Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality
10.6 - Ensure enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision-making in global international economic and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate institutions
Goal 11
11.4 - Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage
Goal 12
12.1 - Implement the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries
12.2 - By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
12.5 - By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
12.6 - Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
12.7 - Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities
12.8 - By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
12.a - Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
12.b - Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
Goal 13
13.3 - Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
Goal 14
14.1 - By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
Goal 15
15.4 - By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, in order to enhance their capacity to provide benefits that are essential for sustainable development
15.5 - Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species
Goal 16
16.7 - Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
Goal 17
17.9 - Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
Systemic Issues - Policy and Institutional coherence
02/2022
