Overview 

This section is designed to set out the main considerations businesses will take into account when building indicators to monitor themselves and their suppliers or partners. 





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Steps

  1. Identify indicators for measuring human rights performance and communicate indicators throughout the business
  2. Develop and implement methodology for acquiring qualitative and quantitative data
  3. Review data and use this to inform strategy and action plans
  4. Identify good practice in human rights reporting
  5. Report on commitments, targets and performance
 

Key Messages

  • Developing clear and consistent human rights indicators is essential in ensuring compliance with international human rights standards
  • Understanding the best ways to measure supplier and business partner compliance with human rights standards is critical
  • Communicating a clear message on human rights through use of the sustainability or annual report is important for all relevant stakeholders 
  • Not all human rights performance can be quantified and process-oriented measurement is equally important.

Benefits


The benefits of getting monitoring and reporting right are:
  • It helps the company demonstrate its commitment to respect human rights to its stakeholders
  • Developing meaningful human rights indicators within the business helps to ensure that human rights become an integral part of business decision-making and overall strategy review
  • Ensuring monitoring of human rights also covers the supply chain and helps to minimise the risk of human rights reputational issues later on
  • Being able to report on human rights in line with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Global Compact Communication on Progress as well as to ratings agencies such as the FTSE4Good or the Dow Jones Sustainability Index
The Guide for Integrating Human Rights into Business Management is developed by: