WFDSA in partnership with local DSAs conducts various educational initiatives with government, consumer advocates, academia and other key external stakeholders to promote the opportunities direct selling industry offers to people around the world, to ensure the highest ethical standards are maintained and to help implement new or revise the existing regulations/legislation for the benefit of everyone involved.
These programs serve as an ideal platform for the exchange of experiences and information that is beneficial for the industry’s future growth. The main objectives of these programs are threefold: a) provide a panoramic view of the industry across the region; b) achieve transparency of the industry as part of its efforts to promote corporate governance and ethics; c) bring together government regulators, consumer leaders, academics and media across the region and establish/strengthen relationships with them.
The purpose of these regional programs is to teach paid DSA staff employees as well as company volunteers to better manage their national DSAs, improve the value of the services they can deliver to member companies and assist them in meeting WFDSA’s standards of excellence.
WFDSA partners with local DSAs and the independent third party research firms to conduct the socio-economic impact studies in various markets. These studies show various socio and economic contributions of direct selling industry in the various markets.
WFDSA in cooperation with national DSAs conducts research on DSA members’ corporate philanthropy efforts.
WFDSA produces an annual publication highlighting various initiative.
A premier triennial industry event bringing together direct selling industry executives and key external stakeholders from all over the world to exchange information, learn from each, discuss opportunities and challenges lying ahead of direct selling and see how new technologies, new legal developments and new management skills impact various businesses