ESLEE Consulting support businesses and organisations in their efforts to be more responsible in their activities whether that be through their recruitment practices, supply chains or community engagement and support. We can help you address potential and actual human rights challenges. Our advice is aligned with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and ensure they support the business’ commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

We can support your businesses in the following ways:

  • Strategy development

  • Policy review and development

  • Developing robust governance systems

  • Research and due diligence

  • Capacity building and training

  • Implementation of projects or actions

  • Stakeholder engagement

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Policy review and development

Strategy development

We provide businesses with support to develop effective strategies that are aligned with their own values, relevant laws as well as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

We provide practical guidance with your operational context in-mind. We can help you refine your priorities and use resource in the most effective way.

Whether you want to develop a broad Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy or a specific product strategy we can help.

ESLEE Consulting can support your business to develop and or update various policies and guidance documents such as:

  • Employee code of conduct aligned with your business’ values

  • Supplier code of conduct

  • Human Rights statement or policy

  • Support in writing and reviewing modern slavery statements

Developing robust governance systems

ESLEE Consulting can also support your business develop robust governance systems and strategies to prevent, mitigate and respond to human rights impacts, a robust governance system could include:

  • Defined goals and commitments that align with your business’ values and impact

  • KPIs that outline what key functions across the business will do

  • Finding effective ways to provide resource and build capacity in your business to manage human rights impacts

  • Develop or amending management systems

  • Updating guidance and communication to key staff

Capacity building and training

Many businesses struggle to understand and/or resource effectively in order to address human rights challenges in their businesses. We help businesses to develop the knowledge and tools to adequately understand, address and mitigate human rights impacts they may cause, contribute to or be linked to through their operations and supply chains.

Emily has done this is various ways, such as becoming an integral part of your team (as a consultant) in order to understand how your business operates and support your business from within or through a training and guidance development. Training can be developed and delivered to the needs of your business and people, and can cover various topics such as:

  • Modern slavery

  • Labour rights

  • Human Rights and Business introduction or advanced

  • Responsible sourcing

  • Topic focused: children’s rights, child labour, land rights, agriculture, manufacturing

Research and due diligence

We can undertake research within your operations and supply chains providing you with insight into your challenges and opportunities. Research can also be sector, country or product specific depending on your requirements.

Our approach is aligned with the UNGPs and can support your business to undertake human rights due diligence to assess its impacts in various ways such as risk assessments (desk-based and with stakeholder engagement) and Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs).

Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIA)

A Human Rights Impact Assessment is a process for systematically identifying, understanding, assessing and addressing the actual and potential human rights impacts of business operations and supply chains. HRIA’s are rooted in the reality of a business’ actual operations and any potential impacts that may occur. They allow a business to truly understand what is going on its in own operations rather than assuming risks outlined by other businesses or NGO’s or perhaps tackling issues from a top-line perspective and country level. HRIA’s allow a business to collect more detailed information, understand its actual operating context and because it involves direct engagement with stakeholders it allows a business to take more effective measures and use it resources in the most efficient way. It helps stakeholders feel listened to and respected, as part of this process we recommend providing adequate feedback to stakeholders involved in the HRIA about actions being taken. Our HRIA methodology is aligned with the UNGPs, which provide clarity about how companies can meet their responsibility to respect human rights.

Implementation

Stakeholder engagement

Supporting businesses to develop meaningful and effective stakeholder engagement strategies and programmes. This can include helping businesses to map and identify key stakeholders and/or managing the actual engagement.

Stakeholder engagement is a key part of human rights due diligence and integral to all parts of the process

Once your business has a greater understanding of your human rights impacts and has developed a strategy, we can help implement these plans no matter how big or small. Whether it’s a new responsible sourcing strategy or a factory improvement plan we can help you implement the actions. We can also support project development and management as well as remediation strategies.