Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

Last updated: 2012

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are a set of guidelines for States and companies to prevent, address and remedy human rights abuses committed in business operations.

Use this resource to:

  • Strategy: Adopt the standards and practices with regard to business and human rights so as to achieve tangible results for affected individuals and communities, and thereby also contribute to a socially sustainable globalisation.
  • Governance: Embed the human rights policy throughout a business’ functions.
  • Identify: Understand the responsibility of enterprises to respect human rights, depending on their scale and scope.
  • Assess: Implement human rights due diligence.
  • Set Targets: Design targets based on human rights due diligence assessment.
  • Act: Learn how states and companies can prevent and address negative impacts on human rights by business.
  • Monitor: Set up continued human rights due diligence for monitoring purposes.
  • Disclose: Make publicly available human rights commitments and processes.

Principles for Sustainable Insurance

Last updated: 2012

Principles for the global insurance industry to address environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities.

Use this resource to:

  • Strategy: Commit to considering environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities in insurance business, and to working with other industry participants to do the same. These Principles are relevant to insurers in their dual role as both corporates and as organisations that make investments. This initiative involves a fee for participation and requires periodic disclosure of progress made towards adopting the principles.

The Guide to Social Return on Investment (SROI)

Last updated: 2012

Guidance on conducting identifying, measuring and valuing social impact to calculate Social Return On Investment (SROI).

Use this resource to:

  • Estimate value created: Follow this methodology to monetise the social value an organisation creates, preserves, or erodes for stakeholders. This methodology guides an organisation through the process of valuing impact from the perspective of all affected stakeholders.