From Evidensia’s About and Methods pages,
“Evidensia helps you access and interpret credible research on the sustainability impacts of supply chain initiatives and tools, including standards and certification.
With growing commitment by governments and businesses to tackle sustainability challenges, there is a need for understanding what approaches work where, why and how. Evidensia helps you access and interpret credible research on the sustainability impacts and effectiveness of supply chain initiatives and tools. It provides a portal to information and evidence and supports shared learning through its insights and analysis.
Evidensia follows an open source principle to sourcing content that is relevant and meets basic research quality norms. All credible content selected or submitted to the site is then organised based on our evidence typology so you can find what you need. In [Evidensia’s] online library you will see transparent information about what category of evidence a specific resource belongs to that is determined by what type of research it is based on and how the study was designed. You can search in the online library for studies by country or region, by sector or product, by sustainability issue, by organisation or tool. You can see transparent information about how a study was designed. You can also see results across an entire sustainability topic in our visual summaries. Experts provide their insights on the latest research to help you understand results. Where available, you will also find additional contextual and operational information about how specific tools and approaches work and the contexts in which they operate. This information is to ensure users appreciate the differences among various types of evidence and interpret evidence correctly.”
Studies are aggregated by the following topics:
Child rights
Climate change
Consumers and supply chains
Forests and other ecosystems
Freshwater and oceans
Health and wellbeing
Livelihoods
Participants costs and
Pesticides, fertilizers, and soil
Plant and wildlife conservation
Rights of indigenous people and local communities
Wages and worker’s rights