Guide to Human Rights Impact Assessment and Management

The International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) and the International Finance Cooperation (IFC), in close collaboration with the UN Global Compact, have developed the Guide to Human Rights Assessment and Management. This Guide provides a toolkit that business managers can use to identify, assess and implement responses to human rights challenges in new or evolving business projects. It is a practical tool to bring human rights impact assessment into core business planning and management processes. 

The Guide provides an eight-step process, namely:

-Step 1:  Determine whether a full Human Rights Impact Assessment and Management Process

-Step 2: Identify and clarify the business project context

-Step 3: Set the baseline: articulate the current local picture and conditions

-Step 4: Consult with stakeholders to verify the human rights challenges

-Step 5: Assess the human rights impacts and consequenses

-Step 6: Present the assessment findings and recommendations to management

-Step 7: Implement a human rights management process

-Step 8: Monitor, Evaluate and report on the management process

 This Guide can be used in three ways, namely as a risk management tool, an engagement tool and as a decision-making tool.

The Guide is a work in progress and is to be tested over the next two years to ensure that it is practical and user-friendly by various companies. The experience gained from the road-testing will be used to further refine the guide. It is planned to have the revised version available in both print and electronic  by mid-2009.

There are also supporting documents available, namely the Executive Overview, which is directed towards CEO's and senior management, focusing heavier on the business case and the Frequently Asked Questions (English), (Spanish) (French).

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English	HTML page	click here to view/download
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