The form of these communications can vary
Tracking effectiveness:
a snapshot
1. Develop systems and indicators
to track what mitigation and
remediation actions are taking
place and whether they are
effective.
2. Draw on a range of qualitative and
quantitative data sources including
the perspective of potentially
impacted stakeholders.
3. Learn from monitoring and tracking
efforts, and integrate learnings into
policies, processes and practices.
and may include in person and online meetings,
reports and other documentation available
on the business’ website or in hard copy.132
Depending on who your stakeholders are, you
may want to consider making this information
available in different languages. For example, if
your workers are primarily made up of migrant
workers from another country, you should make
the information available in their language. Or,
if your workforce is primarily from mountainous
and remote areas with poor literacy levels,
it is important to think about other ways to
communicate effectively. Businesses within the
tourism industry should also consider how they
communicate with customers and ensure that
information is available in an accessible and
culturally respectful manner.
Communicating how your company is
addressing human rights impacts
There
The business responsibility to respect human
in Part 2, increasingly governments around the
rights also includes having processes and
procedures in place that allow the business
to ‘show’ their respect for human rights by
communicating their efforts to assess and address
their human rights impacts to stakeholders.130
Communicating openly about your business’
efforts helps demonstrate transparency and
accountability to affected individuals or groups
(i.e., rights-holders) as well as to stakeholders,
such as civil society and investors.131
is
a
growing
trend
of
enhanced
transparency in the private sector. As discussed
world are mandating that companies be more
transparent about their human rights risks and
impacts through publicly available reports. As a
result, the public is receiving more information
about how companies are identifying and
addressing their human rights risks and impacts.
However, analysis of the reports made available
under various reporting regimes indicates that
there is significant room for improvement as
many reports only contain high-level information
and fail to provide detailed information about
specific risks and mitigation strategies.133
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