Human rights due diligence that shows you who is actually at risk
Your supplier audits, your certifications and your reporting frameworks each cover one part of your operations.
A risk can stay hidden across a whole group (workforce, community, customers) until you apply a human rights-based approach to your business conduct.
Seeing the whole picture means reading them together and identifying how the same operation affects different people differently.
That is the work I do.
The approach that covers everything
Developed within the international human rights framework, the human rights-based approach involves systematically identifying the impacts of a business activity on the rights of the people it affects, particularly those traditionally excluded from decision-making.
Applied to business practices, it identifies risks of harm and levers for generating documented positive outcomes. It provides a structured framework for analysing your organisation's impacts across its stakeholders, and the means to prioritize them according to your objectives and resources.
About
With more than 20 years’ experience in the field of human rights protection, I have worked for several international organisations in more than 20 countries.
I have worked on humanitarian and economic development projects, sometimes in highly complex contexts.
What do they have in common?
People’s capability to take action is fundamental in ensuring economic sustainability.
Projects succeed only when the rights of those involved are protected and respected. This is why I always adopt a human rights -based approach when I work with my clients. Because of this, my clients are able to develop a coherent, sustainable strategy that delivers value for all their stakeholders.
My services
Gender-responsive human rights risk assessment. I map how your activities affect people, showing the differentiated impacts on each group concerned: your own workforce, the communities living near your sites, the workers in your supply chain and the people who use what you make. You receive a risk map, a ranked list of your most severe risks and a short note your executive team can decide on.
Stakeholder engagement design. I support your team in designing and running the conversations with the people your activities affect, including the channel through which they can raise concerns. You receive an engagement protocol, the collection tools, the facilitation of the first sessions and a record validated by the people who participated.
Human rights strategy development. Working from the assessment and meaningful consultation with relevant stakeholders, we build your human rights strategy around your organisation’s mission, objectives and values. Your impact on human rights is tangible and measurable.
Policy and governance review. We review your human rights policy, the roles behind it, the escalation thresholds and the indicators, against the framework you already use. You receive a revised policy, a responsibility matrix and a plan.
Human rights and responsible business conduct capacity building. I train the teams who will run the strategy: procurement, compliance, human resources and operations. You receive a individualized programme, adapted to your needs, the working templates and a follow-up session three months later.
If you woul rather talk
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