background
The German non-profit organization GIZ is committed to a future that is worth living, everywhere in the world. An important part of this is the improvement of the production conditions for small farmers and workers in the production chains of rubber, cocoa, coffee, bananas, soy, etc.
GIZ Living Wage Costing Tool
GIZ has developed a ‘Living Wage Costing Tool’, to motivate and help owners of plantations, farms and supermarkets to pay a living wage to their employees and partners. us. was commissioned to develop a user-friendly digital version of the existing (Excel) tool, building on the (also built by us.) IDH Salary Matrix.
two-step process
The Salary Matrix Tool calculates the living wage gap, the GIZ Costing Tool calculates ways to close this gap between the paid wage and a living wage. Both tools should be logically connected, but also be able to be used as separate applications. The user should be able to easily integrate the results (data) of both tools, which makes the application of the tools more efficient and effective.
what does us. do?
us. takes care of the digitalization of all functionalities of the existing excel version, creates a secure and user-friendly user interface for the GIZ Costing Tool and ensures integration (API) with the IDH Salary Matrix and other IT solutions. After delivery, us. is a partner for GIZ for future improvements, maintenance and hosting.
open source software
With this project, GIZ wants to contribute to the collection of open source software. This means that source code and documentation are made publicly available via github. us. writes all source code in accordance with internationally accepted best practices; understandable for other developers, well named, well structured and commented. Each individual project gets a README.md file with basic documentation describing how to set it up and use it.