Human rights core services and due diligence in agriculture, construction, hospitality and contracted services sectors
Human Rights Due Diligence Management Services
We help you identify the key human rights risks in your business. Our approach looks across the entire business and includes relevant markets, products, and supply chains. We assess impact on rights-holders through on-the-ground research and data, tailored assessment frameworks and provide roadmaps for risk mitigation.
In-depth human rights risk assessment. Research and investigation into specific areas of concern.
Human rights impact assessment (HRIA): Using research and data to identify and understand the effects on stakeholders, including employees and supply chain participants.
We will work with your internal or external legal advisers on the relationship of our work with applicable international, transnational, and national law. We do not provide legal advice.
We provide practical advice and measurable actions to mitigate issues which have been identified. This advice is a key output from the Gap Assessment.
Gap Assessment
We assist you in assessing the gaps between existing policies, systems and practices, and human rights due diligence laws, international standards, and sector standards.
We assess your policies and practices against:
Relevant international and national laws and regulations.
International human rights and responsible business standards (e.g., UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights, OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) Guidance for Multinational Corporations etc.)
Key Industry or Sector guidelines.
Measuring and reporting human rights performance
Using industry standards and best practice guidance we undertake comprehensive assessments of human rights performance.
Policies, governance, and training
Together with your internal staff and legal advisers, we develop human rights-related policies tailored to company and industry challenges and effective governance structures that embed human rights in all key processes.
We can develop and implement relevant training for all the various levels of the business, including the Board. This training can extend to suppliers and other linked businesses.
Grievance mechanisms
We design effective operational grievance mechanisms as defined in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and aligned with industry related standards and codes for receiving and resolving human rights-related complaints.
Due diligence in the sports context
We help sports sponsors or partners and/or sport rights holders to establish risk management systems to screen potential sponsors, partners, or sports rights holders for human rights risks.
Human Rights due diligence is becoming an integral part of sports sponsorship or other commercial partner decisions for sponsors and rights owners. Incorporating human rights due diligence into sports sponsorship is the building block for responsible sport. Effective human rights risk assessment is essential to understand the monetary risk that each new sponsorship or commercial partnership poses.
As part of this service, we conduct human rights impact assessments and establish adequate human rights due diligence processes that assist in comparing proposals. We engage with the management of your patterns on your behalf to improve their compliance with human rights standards.