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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

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

How to shift your company from risk mitigation to opportunity

Disclosure requirements around the world are increasingly becoming the new norm, but they are rife with references to risk: how do you overcome this and move beyond risk mitigation toward impact?

Human Rights, Auditing&WiderMarch 31, 2020risk, impact, risk mitigation, modern slavery, legislation, due diligence, modern slavery act

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