Briefing and Q&A:G3 Update

Human Rights and Gender

Agenda

• Project aims• Working Group Members• Main draft disclosure items• Questions & Answers

G3 Update Aims

• G3 Guidelines which provides up to date reporting guidance on Human Rights and Gender

• Address lack of Human Rights/Gender disaggregated data in sustainability reports

Thematic Revisions

Principles

Standard Dislcosures

Content

Boundary

Quality

Profile

Strategy and Analysis

Organizational Profile

Report parameters

Governance, Commitments and

Engagements

Disclosure on Management Approach and Performance

Indicators

Economic SocialEnvironmental

• Labor & Decent Work

• Product Responsibility

• Human Rights• Society

Social

Human RightsWorking Group Members

Former Kenya Human Rights Commission

Gender Working Group Members

Human Rights Reporting Working Group Recommendations

• Scope of Human Rights– Companies can affect a wide range of rights– International Bill of Rights as point of reference

• Key developments in Human Rights– UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on Business

and Human Rights John Ruggie– “Complicity”– “Root causes”

Human Rights Reporting Working Group Recommendations

• A sustainability report should address:

1. Which human rights are material to the organization and its stakeholders, from the perspective of both risks and opportunities.

2. Due diligence processes - the degree to which the organization has the ability to anticipate, prevent, manage and remedy human rights impacts

3. Performance - the degree to which the organization’s due diligence processes are proving effective in avoiding incidents of human rights violations and how the organization has contributed positively and/or negatively to and/or affected certain human rights.

Human Rights DMA

New headings:

• Organizational Risk Assessment• Organizational Impact Assessment• Follow-Up and Remediation

Human Rights Performance Indicators

New Performance IndicatorsAspect: Assessment• HR10 Percentage and total number of sites/operations in high-

risk countries or areas (e.g. conflict zones) and percentage and total number of those sites/operations that have been subject to human rights reviews and/or impact assessments. (Core)

• HR11 Percentage of human rights impact assessments/reviews that have engaged external stakeholders in the assessment process. (Core)

Aspect: Follow-up/Remediation• HR12 Number of grievances related to human rights filed

through formal internal grievance procedures broken down by internal and external stakeholders. (Core)

Edits to HR 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7

Governance Profile Section

• Disclosure added on the process for determining the composition of the highest governance bodies, including any consideration of gender and other diversity characteristics.

• Split LA13 and proposed including all governance body composition disclosures in the profile section.

Labor & Decent Work DMANew Aspect• Equal Remuneration for Women & Men

DMA Disclosures• Policy: the types, lengths, entitlements and payments of Maternity,

Paternity & Adoption leave and also other forms of care leave. Statutory provisions governing the length of these, and the responsibilities of payments during this period.

• Training & Awareness: who participates in diversity & equal opportunities training & topics addressed

• Context: socio-economic environment that provides opportunities & barriers for the participation of both women and men e.g. women’s workforce participation rates.

Labor & Decent Work Performance Indicators

New Performance Indicators• Return to work and retention rates after maternity, paternity or adoption

leave by gender.• Strategies, current actions and future plans for managing gender wage gaps.

Revised Performance Indicators• LA2: Total number and rate of new employee hires and employee turnover

by age group, gender and region. • LA14: Ratio of basic salary or remuneration of men to women by employee

category by significant locations of operation.

Edits• Gender disaggregation of LA1, LA3, LA6, LA7, LA10, LA12

Product Responsibility

New Aspect• Gender Equality ImpactDMA disclosures• Responsible gender portrayal in marketing &

communicationsNew Performance Indicator• Life cycle stages in which gender impacts of products

and services are assessed for risks, improvement and percentage of significant product and service categories subject to procedure.

Economic, Environment & Community

Economic• Gender Disaggregation of EC5Environmental• Relevance text added to DMA & EN 6, 9 & 14Community• Relevance text added to DMA and #1, 2 & 3• Specific emphasis on differential impacts by

gender and stakeholder consultation of both women & men

Thank you and please provide you comments!