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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.

Beyond Compliance: Collaborating for Ethical Supply Chains

As &Wider grows, we’re focusing on social sustainability and new legal frameworks like the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. We partner with those committed to improving workers' lives through collaboration and data-driven insights. Our clients tackle labour exploitation in supply chains proactively, using worker-sourced data to drive continuous improvement.

5 ways to win supplier buy-in for your human rights due diligence programme

Engaging suppliers in human rights due diligence can be challenging, especially when they are already managing various compliance requirements. Here's how we, as the &Wider’s implementation team effectively onboard suppliers to take our worker monitoring surveys, to make the process mutually beneficial.

5 questions to gauge your human rights due diligence progress

The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive has hit a roadblock, but that doesn't mean we hit the brakes on getting ready for human rights due diligence.