Human Rights Impact Assessment Guidance and Toolbox
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The Toolbox and Guidance for Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIA) aims to guide HRIA – which serve to identify, understand, assess and address the impact of business activities on human rights holders – for large-scale business projects and activities conducted at project or site level. The tool provides individual guidance documents for the different project lifecycle phases from planning and scoping to reporting and evaluation as well as case studies. Thereby, the tool supports human rights practitioners and businesses alike in conducting HRIA.
The Toolbox and Guidance supports human rights practitioners and institutions, governments, businesses, NGOs and financial institutions in undertaking Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIA).
The 10 key criteria for HRIA which are also mentioned by the tool are:
– Meaningful participation
– Use of human rights standards
– Analysis of actual and potential impacts (caused, contributed to and directly linked to)
– Assessment of severity of human rights impacts
– Inclusion of impact mitigation measures
– Focus on access to remedy