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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.

Sustainability, Human Rights, AuditingLea Esterhuizen and Gwendolyn RemmertAugust 13, 2024human rights due diligence, compliance, responsible supply chains, risk mitigation

So you want to listen to the workers in your supply chain? 3 questions to guide your responsible sourcing strategy.

Giving attention to the intent of listening to workers helps ensure that the organisation will take thoughtful action with this feedback.

Human Rights&WiderJune 22, 2021responsible sourcing, responsible supply chains, global supply chains, continuous improvement

How can appreciation help with building sustainable supply chains?

What tools do you already use for worker engagement? What policies do you already have in place to encourage responsible sourcing, and what interventions have worked in the past? Building on those strengths offers you a new strategic direction and more willing stakeholders to make it happen.

Sustainability&WiderJune 8, 2021appreciative inquiry, supply chains, global supply chains, responsible supply chains, responsible sourcing, continuous improvement

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?

Sustainability, Auditing&WiderMay 11, 2020COVID-19, coronavirus, due diligence, responsible sourcing, responsible supply chains, impact, social impact, compliance, risk mitigation, child labour, child labor, data, working conditions, worker wellbeing

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?

Why we need to measure worker happiness now and not later

Thank the gods (and the UN) that we didn’t apply the worker wellbeing argument to human rights.

Human Rights, SustainabilityLea EsterhuizenDecember 17, 2018responsible supply chains, responsible sourcing, working conditions, worker wellbeing, workers, data, measure, risk mitigation

Reflections on SEDEX 2018

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

Auditing, Human RightsLea EsterhuizenMarch 26, 2018sedex, compliance, responsible supply chains, ethical trade, worker voice, continuous improvement