Discussion paper proposes collaborative approach to human rights impact assessments
"A collaborative approach to human rights impact assessments", 23 Mar 2017
This paper suggests a new collaborative and participatory approach to human rights impact assessments (HRIAs). It was written for stakeholders—in particular, communities, workers, and other project-affected people; their representatives, including local and international civil society organizations; companies; and others—who seek more effective strategies for investigating the human rights impacts of business projects or operations, and who are willing to consider a collaborative assessment...This paper may also be of interest to representatives of companies, project-affected people, or civil society organizations who are not yet ready to undertake a fully collaborative assessment, but who wish to make their human rights impact assessments more inclusive and responsive, or who seek to encourage greater buy-in from other stakeholders. Such readers might be particularly interested in, for example, the sections on stakeholder involvement and meaningful participation (pp 28-36), the steering committee (pp 38-42), or transparency and disclosure (pp 72-74).