We help investors identify, prioritise and manage salient human rights risks at the investee and portfolio level.
INVESTOR RESPONSIBILITY ON HUMAN RIGHTS
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.
IDENTIFY
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 supply chain issues pre-transactions, spotlighting high risk sectors and regions, providing tailored analysis on critical issues.
PRIORITISE
We prioritise actual and potential impacts based on their saliency, focusing on the risks that are most severe in scale and scope and the most difficult to remediate, as well as the level of influence and control investors have over the asset.
MANAGE, engage & monitor
We make recommendations and design action plans for investors to engage with and monitor their highest risk holdings, tailored based on the type of investment and level of control.
CASE STUDY: TIGRAY REGION, ETHIOPIA
A European development finance institution commissioned us to conduct conflict-sensitive human rights due diligence on one of its investee companies: a garment factory in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, which has been the site of a conflict since late 2020. We engaged with the client and local stakeholders to develop a responsible exit strategy and actionable mitigation measures, to support a closing of the factory in a manner congruent with the recommendations of the Working Group on Business and Human Rights and the UNGPs.