Your Platform Offering Human Rights Due Diligence Support
Navigate the complexity of human rights due diligence with the right partners.
Human rights and environmental impacts are a reality, and designing adequate responses can be complicated. Thankfully, you don't have to do it alone.
We’re here to guide businesses through the latest Human Rights Due Diligence laws, so you can navigate the legal requirements with confidence and good practice. Our platform brings together a circle of expertise - companies who can not only advise, but also provide practical support to help you implement and embed the necessary systems that address these new regulations.
Here you have the opportunity to connect with expert partners for each step of the due diligence process, providing you with the clarity and guidance wherever you need it. These delivery partners are practised at working with companies across sectors, with small and large budgets, and with differing levels of experience in assessing human rights along supply chains.
What does due diligence mean for you?
If you’re a procurement, sustainability or compliance professional, or even a business owner/CEO, you’re responsible for preparing your company to work within the new legislation. What is human rights due diligence?
From now on, your company will need to assess, address, track and communicate about adverse human rights impacts along your supply chain. Are your suppliers ready to meet the requirements? Get expert advice on how you, in your role, can equip your company as well as your suppliers to meet human rights due diligence requirements.
Meet Our Collective of Due Diligence Experts
Our partners will provide relevant advice and guidance on human rights due diligence, covering both legal and practical aspects.
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Who can help where?
Embed Responsible Business Conduct
Verité provides companies with independent, transparent, actionable, and timebound remediation plans that include well-defined reimbursement plans for any recruitment costs paid by workers, where applicable.
Identify & Assess Adverse Impacts
Companies that buy Rainforest Alliance certified products benefit from the wealth of data our certification program provides, including various human rights indicators. And through our monitoring & evaluation services unit, we also provide a variety of data solutions to food, beverage and forestry companies that do not participate in our certification program.
With Sayari Graph, users can discover previously unknown entities owned, controlled, or acting on behalf of known criminals, designated terrorists, traffickers, and human rights violators to ensure their businesses can steer clear of these illicit actors.
Cease, Prevent Or Mitigate
Sayari Graph helps organizations look for indicators of forced labor, scan for known high-risk companies, and screen beneficial owners to ensure their supply chains are not exposed to human rights violators.
Track
Communicate
Verité’s CUMULUS Forced Labor Screen™ remotely maps international labor supply chains using patented technology to gather data on workforces, recruiters, and unethical recruitment and employment practices. The membership-based platform proactively screens priority operations, supply chains, and investment portfolios for the presence of the International Labour Organization (ILO) forced labor indicators.
&Wider produces annual reports with stats such as human rights risks and impacts for you to communicate effectively with your stakeholders.
Using stakeholder feedback, the &Wider system allows you to track human rights risks and progress in highest risk areas or sites.
Sustainable Links supports clients to understand their existing grievance landscape and potentially affected rightsholders. Based on this analysis they help clients build effective grievance procedures and internal response capabilities so that grievance mechanisms function both as early-warning systems in risk management and provide effective remedy to affected rightsholders.
Provide For Or Cooperate in Remediation
&Wider’s Landscape assessments give you national-level human rights risk assessments using up to date data direct from workers, helping you prioritise by knowing the broad nature and extent of human rights risks in a particular sourcing geography.
Sustainable Links will assess existing company processes and strategies (in HR, purchasing, sales etc.) for how well they meet due diligence requirements and facilitate internal engagement to develop goals, action plans, milestones and indicators for long-term success.
Sayari Graph leverages global public records and graph technology to pre-compute complex, cross-border corporate networks, thus providing a clear picture of illicit financial actors, their infrastructure, and relationships worldwide.
EFI works with managers of supply chains to develop and implement continuous improvement plans that support and measure safe, dignified, and professional workplaces. In the fresh produce industry in the Americas, EFI provides a certification program that forms and trains a worker-management collaborative team to comply with its stringent standards.
“Sustainable Links support clients with the analysis and prioritization of human rights risks for own operations and value chains, and help businesses to build internal capabilities for regular assessments and effective response measures. They also partner to conduct deep dive assessments to investigate concrete human rights impacts on site (Human Rights Impact Assessment)
Ardea International work at both strategic and operational levels, including developing corporate strategy, risk management and embedding due diligence principles through practical implementation, policy development, training and stakeholder engagement.
Rainforest Alliance certified producers must provide grievance mechanisms and must remediate any human rights abuse in their operations, whether identified through audits or other types of monitoring. We also provide pathways for collaboration among companies, and between companies and partners, to contribute to farm-level grievance and remediation processes.
Sustainable Links help design effective prevention and mitigation measures for prioritised risk areas with an emphasis on awareness raising and training. They support and facilitate dialogue with stakeholders and (potentially) affected rightsholders. Together with their extensive global network they develop prevention, mitigation and remediation measures along your value chain and identify suitable implementation partners.
Across our production countries, the Rainforest Alliance has deep knowledge of the salient sustainability risks. We train farmers to understand and mitigate risks through training, capacity building, and management systems, and we work with local communities to prevent and address the root causes of risk.
EFI’s digital platform helps supply chain managers identify the operations that are credibly engaging in continuous improvement and meeting desired results. The scalable and worker-validated solution provides a concrete score to surface supply chain risks.
EFI’s digital platform creates a continuous improvement pathway for operations that defines, guides and strengthens management systems to ensure human rights.
Verité helps companies understand how labor and human rights risks in their operations and supply chains are currently managed, gaps and challenges in existing management systems, and the identification and implementation of effective due diligence processes, controls, and governance.
Ardea provides capacity building to enable internal personnel to continuously improve efforts to identify and address actual and potential negative human rights and environmental impacts. Ardea also supports the development of management systems and remediation protocols to analyse negative impacts, by helping to understand root causes and establish contextually appropriate measures to prevent and mitigate harm in line with legislation and best practice
Ardea supports clients with bespoke consultancy services to communicate how sustainability and human rights impacts are being addressed, along with compliance with due diligence policies and other processes in business operations and value chains.