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By Deborah Boyer, Azavea

The Open Apparel Registry (OAR) is an open data map of facilities in the apparel industry which apparel brands, civil society organisations, academic researchers, journalists, and other groups use to understand the global apparel supply chain and make it more sustainable and equitable.

The project is steered by Natalie Grillon, the executive director of OAR, and Katie Shaw, the organisation’s COO, both of whom have extensive experience in sustainability initiatives. Grillon came face-to-face with the issues in the fashion industry while working in Northern Uganda as an operations manager for an agricultural company that worked with