Respecting Human Rights – Managing Risk and Measuring Progress
Explore the tools available for managing human rights risk – from audits to alternative approaches – and learn how to track key indicators. Understand how your purchasing practices can either support or undermine human rights.
What you’ll cover:
- The audit approach: its benefits and limitations in human rights programmes
- How to integrate human rights effectively into supplier visits
- Alternative monitoring approaches and how to build them into your strategy
- How purchasing practices affect workers’ rights and what responsible purchasing looks like
- Managing and measuring performance across your supply base
- Setting metrics that drive meaningful change
What you’ll gain:
- Ability to maximise the value of social audits whilst understanding their constraints
- Skills to conduct more effective supplier visits from a human rights perspective
- Understanding of how purchasing decisions impact human rights outcomes
- Methods for monitoring your impact on workers and communities
- Knowledge of how to move beyond audits in your organisation
