Human Rights Guidance, Toolkits and Implementation Support
Helping you put principles into practice
Walking the talk on human rights risk management
Completing policies, governance and risk assessments is only the starting point.
Effective human rights due diligence also means integrating human rights considerations into everyday business practices. This includes building internal capacity, providing training, and embedding processes that enable prevention, mitigation and remediation of impacts. It also requires follow-up on priority risks and, where necessary, conducting targeted investigations to ensure actions lead to meaningful change.
We help our clients turn commitment into action by managing human rights risks effectively.
What does this entail?
Human rights risk management and implementation is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Every business has its own risk profile, structure, and internal capacity, which means solutions must be tailored to what is most appropriate and effective.
We work with you to implement actions that reflect your unique context and risk level, ensuring that your efforts are practical, meaningful, and sustainable.
Our Human Rights Guidance services
LRQA provides a multitude of services to help you implement robust human rights risk management, including but not limited to:
Capacity-building
We develop and deliver learning and capacity-building for clients – from e-learnings to modular training programmes – on issues such as human rights due diligence, as well as on cross-cutting issues such as gender equality or labour standards.
Guidance and toolkits
We produce practical guidance notes and toolkits on specific human rights or labour topics, processes or management systems, including relevant case studies, specific examples and ready-to-use tools.
Investigations
We support you in investigating specific human rights issues, grievances or risks that may have come up, including engagement with business partners, on the ground work and support with remediation roadmaps.
Effectiveness review
We help you review and improve effectiveness of your human rights risk management, including the development of monitoring systems and appropriate KPIs and metrics.
Responsible sourcing
We provide end-to-end responsible sourcing support, including programme management, social audits, supplier engagement and capacity-building. See our dedicated responsible sourcing service page for more information.
Why work with us?
It’s in our DNA
We work with our clients not only to identify human rights risks, but also to remediate it – with over 25 years of on-the-ground experience.
Local expertise
We have high performing teams all over the world who understand the local context, speak the language and are able to conduct field research in an ethical and inclusive way.
Tailored solutions
We draw on deep expertise to understand your priorities and design solutions that work. By bringing together the right people and insights, we create approaches that are practical and effective for your context
Regulatory alignment
We monitor regulatory requirements – from CSRD to CSDDD to modern slavery legislation – and design solutions that support compliance with diverse due diligence and reporting requirements.
