Publications

Policy & Governance Review Relevant to the Agro-commodity Production Landscape in Ghana

Proforest

This policy and governance review provides an overview of existing policies that are relevant to the agro-commodity production landscape in Ghana, covering deforestation, human rights and smallholder support.

Protecting & Respecting Human Rights Defenders

Proforest

This 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.

04 Guidance for child labour grievances

Proforest

How to verify and identify causes of grievances, develop action plans for remediation and resolution, and minimise chances of future non-compliance and conflict.

We have also published an introduction to this series...

Discussion paper on human rights related risks and issues within a landscape initiative

Proforest

This paper discusses important elements of approaches to respect human rights risks and issues within landscape initiatives. This paper was produced in support of a joint initiative by the Sustainable Trade Initiative...

06 Guidance for addressing land rights grievances

This document provides practical and action-oriented guidance on how to manage and address grievances related to land rights in the palm oil sector.

05 Guidance for forced labour grievances

This document provides practical and action-oriented guidance on how to manage and address grievances related to forced labour in the palm oil sector.

03 Guidance for minimum wage grievances

This guidance is primarily developed for growers or mills as a first point of contact, but corrective actions ultimately need to be carried out wherever a grievance on minimum wage is occurring, whether in mills, plantations they own or/and plantations of outgrower or smallholder farms they source from.

02 Guidance for deforestation grievances

This guidance is primarily developed for growers or mills as a first point of contact, but corrective actions ultimately need to be carried out where deforestation happened whether by mills, plantations they own or/and plantations of outgrower or smallholder farms that they source from.

01 Guidance for peat grievances

The guidance is primarily developed for growers or mills as a first point of contact, but corrective actions ultimately need to be carried out where peat degradation happened whether by mills, plantations they own or/and plantations of outgrowers or smallholder farms that they source from.

05 Worker Voice Technologies

Proforest

This document discusses Worker Voice Technology, a term referring to digital worker reporting platforms designed to obtain information directly from workers in order to generate data on working conditions.