Practice area
Human rights due diligence
Design and stand up a due diligence program that identifies salient human rights risks, acts on them, and produces evidence an auditor or counterparty can follow.
Scope
What the engagement covers.
- Salient issue identification across own operations and value chain
- Policy commitment and governance ownership at board and management level
- Risk assessment methodology, including stakeholder engagement design
- Grievance mechanism design and remediation pathways
- Supplier and counterparty diligence sequencing
Outputs
What you hold at the end.
- A written due diligence framework mapped to the UNGPs
- Salient issue register with assigned owners and review cycle
- Evidence architecture: what is recorded, by whom, on what cadence
- Reporting structure for external disclosure
Frameworks
What the work is measured against.
Instruments are named rather than gestured at, because that is what makes a programme auditable.
- UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs)
- OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct
- IFC Performance Standards (IFC PS)
- ILO Core Conventions
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