Goal 3 Outcomes 3.1, 3.2 (both are PBS criterion) Performance expectation To what extent did we meet it? For outcome 3.1 Ensuring authentic and inclusive participation in our programs and initiatives is Participants and stakeholders, in our consultations, research and education, and informing activities experience participation, empowerment and benefit. an important Commission value. Achieving it also strengthens the credibility and influence of the reports and other products that projects culminate with. This statement provides: • Examples of initiatives that have achieved inclusive participation strategies that attracted a diverse range of stakeholders to activities and in turn receiving feedback on the authenticity of the Commission’s leadership and independence in that activity.11 • Examples of initiatives that demonstrate the performance expectation through the empowerment and benefit of more vulnerable participants in consultations, research and education, and informing activities. Several of these initiatives describe activities that build on the empowerment through participation providing real time participant feedback, such as consultation results presented as word cloud resources that can be shared among the community or community versions of the reports. In the coming period, several will develop education and advocacy resources for communities to use by and for themselves.12 For outcome 3.2 Our activities with stakeholder In this period, most initiatives working directly with partner organisations have met or progressed this expectation. organisations lead to systemic and Examples in the statement demonstrate foundational results across these sustained action, including changes to expectations through activities that have first increased participating organisations organisational policy and practice, to understanding of the impact of their systems and operations on human rights, and protect and promote human rights in then gone on to collaboratively deliver activities that turn human rights from legal their context. instruments into effective policies and practical realities. Our activities with Australian business The benefit from initiatives undertaken with several partners is also illustrated increase their capability to identify, by the renewal of multi-year funding arrangements and the establishment of prevent, and address modern slavery in new partnerships. their operations and supply chains. The activities of our business and human rights strategy evidence how we have met Our regional technical cooperation this expectation through the collective results of multi-year activities in which business activities increase stakeholder capacity to participants report an increased understanding of their role in preventing modern advance national reform in partner states. slavery and greater capacity to take practical action address it. Annual Report 2020–2021 Australian Human Rights Commission 81