The third step of human rights due diligence is tracking the company’s performance on preventing and mitigating its human rights risks, and drawing lessons from this for the business. Tracking performance enables a company to know whether its human rights due diligence has been effective and is central to improving over time. For many companies, in addition to their own operations, tracking performance will include monitoring the performance of suppliers, customers and other business partners.
Learn more: see all our resource library listings below, as well as specific sections from these comprehensive resources:
- Guiding Principles 17 and 20 and their commentary
- UNGP Reporting Framework questions C5 and C5.1 and their implementation guidance
- The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: An Interpretive Guide: p.52
- Doing Business With Respect for Human Rights: Chapter 3.5
- How to Do Business With Respect for Children’s Right to Be Free From Child Labour: p.46
- Guidance for Companies on Respecting the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: p.73
- European Commission Sector Guides on Implementing the Guiding Principles: employment agencies: p.57; ICT: p.57; oil and gas: p.54
