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Human Rights Impact Assessment in Nicaragua

TDi offered our client a comprehensive methodology to facilitate the Human Rights Impact Assessment  process, ensuring that they were equipped to enhance due diligence with operations, suppliers, and business partners in Nicaragua

When operating in potential conflict-affected and high-risk areas (CAHRA), it is essential for businesses to conduct a human rights impact assessment to identify, assess, and manage human rights risks in accordance with international standards such as the UN Guiding Principles and the OECD Guidelines. TDi ensured that the client was equipped to enhance due diligence with operations, suppliers, and business partners by facilitating the following:

  • Desk-based Review of Human Rights Policies: Evaluation of the company’s existing human rights policies and assessment of human rights risks and impacts of direct operations, contractors, suppliers, and artisanal and small-scale mining impacts (ASM).
  • Comprehensive Reporting and Presentation: Provision of a detailed report with an executive summary, along with a presentation for senior management, including tools and templates to aid in the implementation of human rights due diligence processes within the company.
  • In-country Analysis: On-site assessment of assets throughout Nicaragua to analyse the national context and understand actual and perceived human rights impacts.

As a result of TDi’s services, our client was able to achieve the following:

Identification of human rights risks and prioritisation of areas for strategic intervention to avoid, mitigate, or remediate impacts.

Provision of a framework for conducting ongoing human rights due diligence of business partners and suppliers.

The report helped satisfy requests for information from the company's customers and investors, demonstrating the company's commitment to due diligence and risk mitigation on human rights.

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