Publications
Human rights due diligence: a systematic approach to respecting human rights
26 November 2024This briefing note outlines the importance of meaningful Human Rights Due Diligence for companies in the agricultural and forestry sectors, supporting them to set up and implement robust processes based on best practice and case studies.
- English (319 kB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Supporting companies
Social Safeguarding Process for Landscape and Jurisdictional Initiatives (LJIs)
28 May 2024This guidance is a resource for planners and implementers of landscape initiatives and suggests practical approaches to ensuring globally applicable minimum safeguarding process: laying out the key steps that all initiatives...
- English (508 kB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Landscapes International
Remedying human rights grievances in the supply chain
17 November 2023Guidance on grievance management for buyers of agricultural commodities
- English (6.34 MB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Supporting companies
Respecting Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Landscape Initiatives
21 March 2023This guidance is a resource for planners and implementers of landscape initiatives and suggests practical approaches to ensuring IPLC participation in, or ownership of, decisions in landscape initiatives at various key steps.
- English (1.28 MB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Landscapes
Gender and social inclusion strategy for the Asunafo-Asutifi Production Landscape
21 December 2022The objective is to promote gender and social inclusion actions in the identified Hotspot Intervention Areas (HIAs) in the Asunafo-Asutifi landscape in the Ahafo region of Ghana. This is to ensure a gender responsive forest landscape that gives equal voice, access, participation and influence for diverse women and men, mostly in the implementation of the ongoing Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme (GCFPR) and other future natural resources projects and programmes in the landscape.
- English (1.38 MB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues Production Landscape Programmes People Nature Landscapes Africa
Gender and Social inclusion in Production Landscapes
21 November 2022A case study of the Asunafo-Asutifi Landscape in the Ahafo Region of Ghana
- English (2.02 MB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Landscapes Africa
Guidance Paper on Social Dialogue, Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining in the palm oil sector in Indonesia
30 August 2022This document is developed to provide guidance to palm oil supply chain actors; producers (plantation and mills), refineries, traders, manufacturers and international consumer goods companies connected to the palm oil sector in Indonesia.
- English (2.27 MB)
- Bahasa Indonesia (2.18 MB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Southeast Asia Palm oil
Human Rights Policy Commitments Guide
31 July 2022Guidance on the process, structure and content of the commitments that can be used to develop a company's Human Rights Commitments Policy.
- English (895 kB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Supporting companies
Protecting and Respecting Human Rights Defenders
4 June 2021This briefing is for companies committed to respecting human rights in their own operations and their supply chains. It details steps to embed the protection and respect of human rights defenders into company policies.
- HRD_InfoNote_2021.pdf (715 kB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People
Discussion paper on human rights related risks and issues within a landscape initiative
1 December 2020This paper discusses important elements of approaches to respect human rights risks and issues within landscape initiatives.
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Nature Landscapes
Guidance for addressing land rights grievances
17 October 2020This is part of a series commissioned by Cargill and written by Proforest as part of Proforest’s work with Cargill on grievances, and how to address grievances with its suppliers.
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Palm oil
Guidance for forced labour grievances
29 September 2020This is part of a series commissioned by Cargill and written by Proforest as part of Proforest’s work with Cargill on grievances, and how to address grievances with its suppliers.
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Palm oil