Human Rights Due Diligence

From first signal to verified remedy

We help cross-border projects and supply-chain partners identify impacts, engage rights-holders, connect findings to operational decisions, and verify whether prevention and remedy work in practice.

Start with a diagnostic Explore the operating model

HRDD is an ongoing management process. It is not a one-off audit, certification, legal opinion, or guarantee of compliance.

Risk-basedPrioritise severity and likelihood, not paperwork volume.

Rights-holder informedTest assumptions with workers, communities, and representatives.

Remedy orientedTrack actions until outcomes can be appropriately verified.

The operating challenge

Human rights risk moves through systems

A project may have policies and audits yet still miss risks carried through contractors, labour agencies, security providers, community relationships, and lower supply-chain tiers.

See the pathway, not only the incident

We connect stakeholder evidence, business relationships, decision ownership, grievance channels, corrective action, and disclosure so that early signals can lead to accountable action.

A cross-border project connected to workers, communities, local organizations, and information channels — Organizational stakeholder and risk-pathway mapping.

Operating model

Six connected steps

The sequence follows internationally recognized due-diligence logic while remaining adaptable to project stage, sector, geography, and the needs of affected people.

Embed

Set policy, ownership, budgets, escalation, and contractor expectations.

Scope

Map operations, relationships, stakeholders, and severe-risk pathways.

Assess

Engage rights-holders and test evidence, causes, and representation gaps.

Act

Prevent, mitigate, cease, and design remedy with named owners.

Track

Monitor implementation, outcomes, recurrence, and unresolved harm.

Communicate

Explain methods, limitations, progress, and remedy without creating new risk.

Core workstreams

Move from risk identification to operational change

Modules can begin as a focused diagnostic or be combined into a project-level HRDD programme.

A structured project process connecting assessment, dialogue, implementation, and monitoring

Project and regional baseline

Understand operating context, organizational stakeholders, vulnerable groups, information flows, and issue pathways.

View service scope

Evidence moving from operations and stakeholders through verification layers to decisions and reporting

Supply-chain risk and evidence

Trace material risks across suppliers, contractors, recruiters, and operational records with clear evidence status.

View service scope

Workers participating in issue identification and practical improvement

Worker voice and remedy

Strengthen safe feedback, grievance access, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and worker-informed verification.

View service scope

A layered evidence system connecting sites, workers, documents, verification, and management decisions — Evidence must remain traceable from source to decision and follow-up.

Evidence discipline

Know what the evidence can and cannot show

Separate verified facts, allegations, stakeholder views, analysis, and unknowns.
Record provenance, consent, access limits, decision use, and retention rules.
Link each material issue to a business owner, action, date, and verification method.
Protect workers, complainants, defenders, local partners, and sensitive community information.
Maintain distinct internal risk records and proportionate public disclosures.

Start with the project, the people, and the decision that must change

A focused diagnostic clarifies scope before deeper fieldwork or programme design.

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