Tools to:

• Identify

• Address & Embed

• Communicate

• Comprehensive HRDD Tools

Tools to Track

The tools in this section are resources for companies to monitor the effectiveness of the actions taken to understand if adverse human rights impacts are being addressed.

United Nations Guiding Principle No 20: In order to verify whether adverse human rights impacts are being addressed, business enterprises should track the effectiveness of their response. Tracking should:

1. Be based on appropriate qualitative and quantitative indicators;

2. Draw on feedback from both internal and external sources, including affected stakeholders.

Valuing Respect

The tool for indicator design uses the theory of change model to develop a beta tool that can be applied by companies and their partners to evaluate an intervention that addresses risks to human rights.

• Shift (under development)

• Multi sector

• Indicators, track

Indicator Design Tool

This tool is part of the Valuing Respect project and supports companies in the design of indicators to monitor the outcomes for people of the actions taken by the company.

• Shift (2021)

• Multi sector

• Indicators, track

FPIC-360 ° Tool

This tool helps address the challenges related to monitoring and verifying FPIC through 1) participation of indigenous peoples and local communities, and 2) transparency of data gathered. The tool was developed in partnership with the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), the Coordinator of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA), and the ISEAL Innovation Fund.

• Equitable Origin (2021)

• Multi sector

• Indicators, indigenous peoples, local communities, upstream

Gender Equality and the Right to Health

This resource provides a list of indicators on gender equality that could be used to identify adverse human rights impacts or track the effectiveness of actions taken.

• Danish Family Planning Association (DFPA) (2020)

• Multi sector

• Gender equality, identify, indicators, labour rights, track

Children’s Rights in the Garment and Footwear Supply Chain

This resource includes buyer-level and supplier-level metrics for companies to integrate child rights into their responsible sourcing frameworks and the reporting of these outcomes.

• UNICEF (2020)

• Garment and Footwear sector

• Case study, child rights, embed, identify, track

Designing a Stakeholder Engagement Plan

This resource provides a template for designing a strategy for ongoing community engagement and two checklists for evaluating the community engagement plan based on established standards for stakeholder communication. Continuous engagement with local communities helps companies monitor impacts and track the effectiveness of their actions. This tool is part of the RIPL Model Guidebook for Business Enterprises Phase 2, where all supporting materials of the guidebook can be found here.

• Landesa (2019)

• Agriculture sector

• Land, local communities, stakeholders, track

The Palm Oil Collaboration Group is providing this library of tools as a service. The resources and links are provided to assist visitors, but does not imply an official endorsement by POCG. The resources in this library do not constitute professional advice or consultancy, and POCG is not responsible for the accuracy of information or decisions made based on such information.

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