Develop a Policy Commitment and Embed Respect for the HRWS:
- Shift, Embedding the Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights within Corporate Culture
- Shift, Organizing the Human Rights Function within a Company
- UN Global Compact, A Guide for Business: How to Develop a Human Rights Policy
Assess Impacts on the HRWS:
- Danish Institute for Human Rights, Human Rights and Impact Assessment – Conceptual and Practical Considerations in the Private Sector Context
- Shift, Business and Human Rights Impacts: Identifying and Prioritizing Human Rights Risks Cumulative Impacts
- International Finance Corporation, Good Practice Guidance on Cumulative Impact Assessment and management: Guidance for the Private Sector in Emerging Markets
- UN Global Compact and Maplecroft, Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum, Cumulative Human Rights Impacts
- UN Global Compact, Webinar on Cumulative Impacts on Human Rights
Related Industry Guidance
- Centre for Social Responsibility and Mining, Social Water Assessment Protocol: A Step Towards Connecting Mining, Water, and Human Rights
Supply Chain Resources
- Shift, From Audit to Innovation: Advancing Human Rights in Global -Supply Chains
- Shift, Respecting Human Rights Through Global Supply Chains: Shift Workshop Report 2
- UN Global Compact, Supply Chain Sustainability: A Practical Guide for Continuous Improvement
- UN Global Compact and Business for Social Responsibility, A Guide to Traceability: A Practical Approach to Advance Sustainability in Global Supply Chains
Water Risks Assessment Tools
- CEO Water Mandate, Corporate Water Accounting
- Ceres, Aqua Gauge
- Global Environmental Management Initiative, Local Water Tool and GEMI Water Sustainability Tool
- Life Cycle Assessments
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Global Water Tool
- Water Footprint Network, Water Footprint Assessment Tool
- World Resource Institute, Aqueduct
- WWF/DEG, Water Risk Filter
Integrate and Take Action on Impacts on the HRWS:
- International Council on Mining & Metals, Integrating Human Rights in Corporate Risk Management Systems
- Institute for Human Rights and Business & Global Business Initiative on Human Rights, State of Play: The Corporate Responsibility to Respect in Business Relationships
Conflicting Standards
- UN Global Compact, Meeting the Responsibility to Respect in Situations of Conflicting Legal Requirements
Leverage
- Shift, Using Leverage in Business Relationships to Reduce Human Rights Risks: Workshop Report No. 4
Responsible Engagement in Water Policy
- CEO Water Mandate, Guide to Responsible Business Engagement in Water Policy
- CEO Water Mandate, Integrity in Water Stewardship Initiatives (Forthcoming)
Track Performance:
- Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard
- CDP, Water Questionnaire
- CEO Water Mandate, Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines
- Danish Institute for Human Rights and Business, AAAQ And the Right to Water: Contextualizing Indicators for Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability, and Quality
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), G4 Guidelines
Communication and Disclosure:
- CEO Water Mandate, Water Disclosure Guidelines
- CDP, Water Questionnaire
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), G4 Guidelines
- Shift, Evidence of Corporate Disclosure Relevant to the UNGPs on Business and Human Rights
Remediation and Grievance Mechanisms:
- International Finance Corporation, Good Practice Note: Address Grievances from Project-Affected Communities
- Shift, Dispute or Dialogue? Community Perspective on company-led grievance mechanisms
- Shift, Remediation, Grievance Mechanisms and the Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights
Stakeholder Engagement:
- Access, Corporate-Community Dialogue: An Introduction
- Access, Making Monkey Business: Building Company/Community Dialogue in the Philippines
- Access, Putting Ourselves in Their Shoes: The Dialogue Table of Tintaya
- Access, “The Only Government We See”: Building Company/Community Dialogue in Nigeria
- International Council on Mining and Metals, Community Development Toolkit
- Shift, Bringing a Human Rights Lens to Stakeholder Engagement
- Realizing the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: A Handbook by the UN Special Rapporteur Catarina de Albuquerque: Principle
- UN Special Rapporteur on Access to Water and Sanitation, Note on Public Participation: Human Right to Safe drinking Water and Sanitation