Human rights and environmental
due diligence
- Human rights and environmental risk assessments
- Risk matrix and prioritisation
- Performance and risk ratings
- Standards Alignment reviews
With our online due diligence platform, you can meet your fiduciary, legal and moral obligations to conduct human rights and environmental due diligence while developing the readiness and capacity of business partners, producers and suppliers to identify, prevent, remedy and disclose salient risks.
Equiception’s online self-assessments provide you with data and actionable insights regarding the maturity of the risk management systems used by business partners and suppliers along your value chain. This tells you how capable and effective they are when managing risk, issue by issue, and allows you to quantify those risks.
Equally important, the system provides immediate feedback and advice to respondents so that they can raise their maturity levels and reduce their risk profile. This is backed by bespoke consultancy and training services available on demand.
Capacity building
accompaniment
- Capacity building recommendations
- Facility Improvement Tasks (FIT) template for remedial action
- Accompaniment through provision and implementation of capacity building recommendations and resources
- Training services
We work with organisations of all sizes and sectors to support and accompany them to enhance their skills, knowledge, and capabilities, ensuring they are well equipped to respond to the growing number of human rights and environmental requirements and improve their overall sustainability performance.
Data and sustainability
reporting
- Interactive dashboards for data visualisations
- Human rights and environmental performance data
- Sustainability reporting
With our Equiception Due Diligence platform we support organisations in their efforts to map, measure, monitor and manage the human rights and environmental performance of their own operations and those of their business partners and suppliers. The platform provides users with a dashboard where they can visualise the social, environmental and governance performance of their value chain partners, as well as the risks that they represent. Filters allow users to drill down and sift the data, compare and contrast company performance, and track changes over time.
Human and labour rights
assessments
Global value chains can be long and complex. Tracing and tracking them is a challenge in itself, as is monitoring respect for human and labour rights in multiple jurisdictions.
An appreciation of the rights-holders and stakeholders at each production site, the prevailing social norms and the dominant workplace culture and employee relations is key to managing ethical, resilient and sustainable value chains, but getting the necessary information can be elusive.
Equiception specialises in assessing sensitive, socially-patterned workplace issues and facilitating resolution of conflicts of right or interests. Our name itself – Equiception – reflects our expertise in balancing or reconciling conflicting perceptions. Our assessments are interview based and unpack the drivers or root causes of unfair, unwarranted or unlawful behaviour. The topics include fundamental principles and rights at work such as freedom of association and collective bargaining; discrimination, harassment and abuse; forced and child labour; and employee relations issues such as grievance handling, discipline, unfair dismissal and industrial action.
Research and
advice
We provide research and advisory services covering topics such as social and labour issues in special economic zones and EPZs; the impact of social media on workplace relations; fair recruitment practices to prevent forced or trafficked labour; managing working hours and overtime issues; fair treatment of contingent and migrant workers; and ethical business in prejudicial situations.