Have you thought about how your company impacts children or how to manage those impacts? Have you considered a child rights angle in your sustainability work? In your supply chain? And how about when marketing your products? Or in your social investment strategy? This training will equip participants and their companies with necessary tools to better understand and manage their impacts on children.
UNICEF, the German Global Compact Network (DGCN) and twentyfifty ltd. are pleased to invite you to attend the second rollout of a UNICEF global training package addressing the steps businesses can take to manage their impacts on children, and to integrate children’s rights into their business processes. This is a specialized, intermediate-level training, divided into four modules and conducted over two days.
Goals:
Draw on international frameworks, standards and tools, which are relevant to business in relation to children’s rights
Understand how a child rights focus can be incorporated into companies’ due diligence processes
Learn how to set up an impact assessment incorporating children’s rights;
Proactively identify and engage with affected children and their representatives
Explore how to integrate your company’s commitment and practicable mitigating actions into its corporate policy, principles, programs and reporting
Understand how to design effective grievance channels for children
Content:
Background on integrating a child rights perspective into specific corporate management processes
Discussion on practical steps, application challenges and strategies for success
An opportunity to reflect on your own business through a child rights lens
Examples and exercises based on real case studies
Target Group
The course is open for businesses from all countries, sectors and sizes. Ideally, participants will have a good understanding of the broader business and human rights framework.
Please note that the training will be held in English.
For further information please contact philipp.bleckmann@giz.de.
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