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Unlocking Success: Three Tips for Meaningful Human Rights Due Diligence

In our previous blog, we explored the critical choice businesses face between the compliance route and meaningful transformation in human rights due diligence (HRDD). Now, it's time to move from theory to practice. This second instalment provides three essential tips to help you embark on that transformative journey. Learn how to ensure compliance while fostering sustainable growth, enhancing stakeholder relationships, and transforming your supply chain into a resilient and positive force. Dive into actionable strategies that can elevate your HRDD efforts from a mere regulatory exercise to a value-generating initiative.

The compliance route vs. the journey of meaningful transformation: Navigating Effective Human Rights Due Diligence

In today's complex regulatory environment, businesses face increasing pressure to ensure responsible practices throughout their supply chains. This two-part blog series explores practical strategies for effective Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD). In Part 1, we examine the regulatory changes and the choices businesses face between taking a compliance-driven route or opting for meaningful transformation. Discover how to navigate the crossroads between mere compliance and fostering genuine improvement for people and the environment while allowing businesses to thrive.

From compliance to impact: a call to measure what matters

Many brands are capturing data in their supply chains and are eager to talk about impact. But social impact is radically different from social compliance. What does that impact look like? And how can we build and measure it over time?

From policing to partnership: the birth of a new paradigm

The relationship between supplier and buyers is shifting. What is the difference between a policing and a partnership model? And how can this shift be accelerated in the responses to COVID-19?

Transcending Box-ticking by Listening to Auditors

We work in the field of “responsible sourcing”. How, to date, have we all tried to carry out this responsibility?

Auditing, SustainabilityLea EsterhuizenAugust 8, 2018social auditiing, audit, responsible sourcing, compliance

Reflections on SEDEX 2018

It was refreshing to observe a change in tone and seriousness during the annual SEDEX conference.

How can workers breathe new life into auditing?

We have long been whining about the shortcomings of auditing, but a widespread abandonment of the role of the auditor is not going to happen anytime soon. Why?