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  • Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines (2014)
  • Exploring the Business Case for Sanitation
  • Shared Water Challenges and Interests
  • Understanding "Sufficiency" in Water-Related Collective Action
  • Corporate Water Accounting
  • Guide to Managing Integrity in Water Stewardship Initiatives (2015)
  • Respecting the Human Rights to Water & Sanitation (2015)
  • Guide to Setting Site Water Targets Informed by Catchment Context
  • Guide to Responsible Business Engagement with Water Policy (2010)
  • Understanding Key Water Stewardship Terms
  • Guide to Water-Related Collective Action (2013)
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  • Water Action Hub
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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

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Table of Contents

  • About
  • Overview
  • Understanding Impacts
    • Understanding the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
    • Impacts on People
    • UN Guiding Principles and Corporate Water Stewardship
  • Respect in Practice
    • Develop a Policy Commitment
    • Assess Impacts on the HRWS
    • Integrate and Take Action
    • Track and Communicate Performance
    • Remediation and Grievance Mechanisms
  • Supporting Human Rights
  • Resources
    • Diagnostic Questions
    • Glossary
    • Human Rights and Corporate Water Stewardship
    • Specific Sections of the Guidance
    • Standards and Instruments Related to the HRWS
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