Co-design approaches to creating code of conduct for corporates’ gender DEI in NGO-corporate partnership

Abstract

In our society nowadays, NGOs and corporates are working together on their common agendas in different ways. As the ones that are trusted more, NGOs provide special propositioning for the business industry. In this emerging partnership between NGOs and corporates, a variety of stakeholders are involved, for which co-design has opportunities to intervene and to create better collaborations. In this paper, I present the theoretical framework that argues the possible usefulness of co-design in the NGO-corporate partnership, creating the code of conduct regarding gender DEI, followed by fieldwork to validate what and how co-design approaches should be applied. Based on the literature review, I identified the reason why the code of conduct and DEI are important in the corporates and the emerging partnership, and why co-design is the appropriate intervention. In the fieldwork, two co-design workshops have been conducted to validate and iterate different design methods and activities. By the end of the second workshop a service, as well as a co-design toolkit, has been created for the client of this thesis work to provide a solution to companies that need to improve their codes of conduct regarding gender DEI.