Human Rights & Social Impact Services

Advising businesses to respect human rights and champion social impact to meet the needs of all people within the means of a living planet.

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Building an Equitable and Resilient Future for All

The global human rights and social impact landscape is moving towards increased regulatory oversight, due diligence, and mandatory reporting on the impacts organisations have on workers, suppliers, communities, and consumers. Our suite of services in Human Rights & Social Impact is designed to help corporates, funds, public administrations, and international institutions comprehensively address these challenges by assessing human rights risks and decent working conditions, remediating issues, monitoring and measuring impact and designing bespoke social impact programs.

Our diverse team combines broad and deep human rights and social subject matter expertise with commercial and operational capabilities to help organisations at different stages implement strategies to respect human rights and deliver meaningful social impact.

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Contributing Towards a Just Transition

As we witness the global shift towards a low-carbon economy, it’s imperative to ensure this change is not only environmentally sustainable but also socially equitable. Just Transition is a set of principles and practices that enable an organisation to navigate the challenges and opportunities of this change. Our live panel discussion featured Anthesis experts exploring…

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Activator Summit 2023 Insights

In October, we hosted our second annual Activator Summit in London.

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Social Impacts in the Informal Economy

More than 60 per cent of the world’s employed population, that is two billion women, men, and youth, earn their livelihoods in the informal economy. The informal or grey economy refers to all economic activities undertaken by workers that are – in law or practice – not or insufficiently covered by formal arrangements. It is…

Guidance

Guide | Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

The CS3D, or Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, is a proposed European Union directive that would require companies to conduct due diligence on their supply chains to identify and mitigate potential human rights and environmental impacts.

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Just Transition Enables a Positive [Value] Chain Reaction

Just Transition is a set of principles and practices that ensure an equitable and just approach to maintaining a liveable planet.

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What Does the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive Mean for Your Organisation?

On November 10th 2022, the European Parliament voted ‘YES’ to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) proposal. The CSRD is a new law governing the requirements for sustainability reporting in the EU and is a significant step up from the existing and relatively limited EU sustainability reporting requirements. While EU-specific, this legislation has broad implications for companies…

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Tackling Modern Slavery in Your Supply Chain

Find out more about how to identify if your organisation needs to publish a modern slavery statement, or guidance to ensure slavery and human trafficking are not taking place in your supply chains.

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Human Rights & Social Impact Services

Our recommendations align with the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, ILO Fundamental Conventions, OECD Due Diligence Guidance and Guidelines, the World Benchmarking Alliance’s Social Transformation Framework, and Just Transition Initiative.

Empower your organisation to realise the business value of social performance by leveraging our Social Impact and Human Rights Services. From human rights due diligence and social impact assessment to ethical trade and just transition, our services empower organisations to thrive while contributing to a world where ethical values and social responsibility take centre stage.

Strategy Development & Advisory

Companies and investors face growing expectations to show how they identify and address their human rights impacts. The regulatory landscape and reporting requirements on modern slavery and human rights and environmental due diligence, among others, are continuously evolving. Meanwhile, civil society and consumers increasingly scrutinise companies’ reporting on positive social impacts.

Drawing on our backgrounds in human rights law, advocacy and compliance, we work closely with leading companies and investors to design and implement tailored human rights policies and strategies aligned with leading international frameworks. We work continuously with clients to help them implement their social impact and human rights strategy and stay in front of emerging risks in their operations and value chains.

Strategy Development & Advisory

Human Rights Risk & Impact Assessments

Under the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights (UNGPs), companies are obliged to “know and show” how they address human rights impacts, to ensure transparency and accountability to stakeholders. Many firms are also subject to evolving regulatory requirements for companies to report on how they conduct human rights due diligence.

Our Human Rights practice assembles industry-leading multilingual project teams to conduct on-the-ground field research for investors and companies on their human rights impacts. Stakeholder engagement is at the heart of our approach, combining meaningful consultation with workers, communities and other affected rightsholders with commentary from local and regional experts, and in-depth public domain research.

Human Rights Risk & Impact Assessments

Social Impact Assessment and Measurement

Regulatory compliance, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and corporate responsibility increasingly mandate and expect companies to demonstrate they are meeting certain social standards, anticipating and mitigating negative social consequences and improving their social performance in line with environmental and economic considerations. We help clients establish measurement and monitoring frameworks to measure, manage, and improve social performance of their services, products, policies, and programs.

With expertise in community engagement, resource management, human rights, social compliance, and monitoring and evaluation, our diverse team works closely with clients to tailor social assessment and measurement to their needs, whether it is at a corporate level, for a specific product, service, and/or for all or part of their supply chain. We work in partnership with clients so that social indicators assessed are in line with their corporate strategy and can be monitored and managed during current state and in the future.

Social Impact Assessment & Measurement

Just Transition

We support organisations to integrate a just transition in their decarbonisation journey. We do this by helping to prioritise stakeholders that are most affected by the transition to a low-carbon economy, create decent work opportunities, identify opportunities for public-private collaboration and leave no one behind.

We can help integrate a just transition into our clients’ sustainability commitments, policies and practices, bridging the various agendas that exist at the nexus of environmental sustainability and social justice and impact.

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Supply Chain Due Diligence & Responsible Sourcing

Regulations increasingly mandate supply chain due diligence, with increased scrutiny on human rights risks beyond first tier suppliers. We help clients proactively manage potential and actual adverse human rights impacts throughout their supply chain and develop approaches to engage with high-risk suppliers globally.

Our approach ensures that a business has a due diligence policy and practices based on international best practices and guiding principles (OECD, UNGPs) and implements these in their supply chains. We then enable businesses to understand how they will enact and embed the diligence.

Supply Chain Due Diligence & Responsible Sourcing

Responsible Investment

Leading investors are increasingly going beyond analysing financially material risks in their portfolios, to assess their most salient human rights risks – those that present the most severe potential impact to people.

We leverage our experience in assessing human rights risks for corporates and our regional expertise to help investors screen portfolios for their highest risk assets. We also help investors get ahead of human rights issues pre-transaction including in the supply chain, spotlighting high risk sectors and regions and providing tailored analysis on critical issues. We bring a human rights lens to environmental & social due diligence, analysing risks based on gold standard frameworks such as the IFC Performance Standards as well as the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights (UNGPs).

Responsible Investment

Guidance

Modern Slavery Act

Find out more about Modern Slavery and Human Rights Legislation and what this means for your business and supply chain.

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EU Human Rights Due Diligence

Learn more about how the European Union (EU) is stepping into a leadership position on the need for mandatory measures to increase the breadth and depth of human rights and environmental due diligence.

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Team

Claire Bosch Zuazo

Global Lead, Social Impact

North America

Mariana Abreu

Global Lead, Human Rights

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Human Rights & Social Impact Services

Building an Equitable and Resilient Future for All

Insights

Contributing Towards a Just Transition

Activator Summit 2023 Insights

Social Impacts in the Informal Economy

Guide | Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

Just Transition Enables a Positive [Value] Chain Reaction

What Does the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive Mean for Your Organisation?

Tackling Modern Slavery in Your Supply Chain

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Creating Positive Supply Chains for Nespresso

Analysing Labour Risks for a UK Retailer

Conducting Due Diligence Study for Liberum

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Modern Slavery Act

EU Human Rights Due Diligence

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Claire Bosch Zuazo

Mariana Abreu