Recommendations for National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights
③ Predictable: providing a clear and known procedure with an indicative time
frame for each stage, and clarity on the types of process and outcome available
and means of monitoring implementation;
④ Equitable: seeking to ensure that aggrieved parties have reasonable access to
sources of information, advice and expertise necessary to engage in a grievance
process on fair, informed and respectful terms;
⑤ Transparent: keeping parties to a grievance informed about its progress, and
providing sufficient information about the mechanism’s performance to build
on confidence in its effectiveness and meet any public interest at stake;
⑥ Rights-compatible: ensuring that outcomes and remedies accord with internationally
recognized human rights;
⑦ A source of continuous learning: drawing on relevant measures to identify
lessons for improving the mechanism and preventing future grievances and
harms;
Operational-level mechanisms should also be:
⑧ Based on engagement and dialogue: consulting the stakeholder groups for
whose use they are intended on their design and performance, and focusing
on dialogue as the means to address and resolve grievances.
2) The UN Guiding Principle above indicates that the government needs to raise
awareness of and improve access to non-State grievance mechanisms which are
not operated by the government.
3) Non-state-based non-judicial grievance mechanisms are operated at different
levels: Global mechanism (for example, ILO Grievance Procedure), regional
mechanism (for example, ADB Accountability Mechanism), local mechanism (for
example, Regional Commission for Labor Dispute Resolution in Italy), industrial
or multilateral mechanism (for example, Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative) and mechanism by enterprise or project.
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