NMC – 29 November 2018 - Människorna bakom leverantörskedjan
NMC – 29 November 2018- Människorna bakom leverantörskedjan
Agenda NMC - 29 November 2018
- Intro och presentation
- Kort om Rädda Barnen
- Leverantörsled – ur ett barnperspektiv
- Direkt och indirekt påverkan
- Kontext och drivkrafter
- Trender och utmaningar just nu
- Förslag på lösningar
- Children´s Rights and Business Principles (CRBP)
- Child Rights & Business – vad, hur och varför
- Business Case: Kina – migrantarbetare och barn
- Frågor och diskussion
Children's rights – the ultimate definition of sustainability
children in the world can’t read
152 million children
in child labour
due to migrating parents looking for work
60 million children are affected
by wars and emergencies
every year
are engaged in hazardous work
73 million children
There are 2.2 billion 250 million children
60 million Chinese children “left behind”
= 1/3 of world population
The world's leading, independent organization for Children
Convention on the Rights of the Child is the foundation on which we build our work. We dream of a world where we no longer are needed, a world...
• where the CRC is realized and the rights of all children are met
• which respects and values each child
• where we listen to and learn from children
• giving every child hope for the future and opportunities
Fact sheet Save the Children
Child Protection
Health & nutrition
EducationHIV/AIDS EmergenciesChild right
governance
Save the Children’s thematic areas
Save the children is active in 120 countries
Quick facts:
• Founded in 1919
• 30 member organizations
• Active in 120 countries
• Income of US$1.6 billion a year
Our vision:
Is a world in which every child attains the right to survival,
protection, development and participation
Our Mission:
Is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting
change in their lives.
The corporate sector and impact on children
The corporate sector has a great opportunity to
change its impact on children…
…and there is a large shift in how corporations are
willing to address their own impact on society
Direct impact on children and
parents in the workplace, e.g.
− Child labor
− Juvenile workers
− Migrant workers*
Indirect impact as a family and
society member, e.g.
− Land exploitation
− Children and climate change
− Economy and living standards
Direct impact on children as
citizens and consumers, e.g.:
− Child targeted marketing
− Normative body ideals
− Dangerous/bad toys
− Cyberbullying
− Unhealthy food
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• The corporate sustainability agenda evolves rapidly with great
attention from CEOs
− 93% of global CEOs state that sustainability is important for
their business (Accenture’s Global CEO study 2013)
− Sustainability is gaining more importance on the CEO agenda
and is recognized as a driver for being a top CEO (Harvard
Business Review leadership ranking 2015)
• Companies are either doing more themselves and/or demanding
more from NGOs
− The private sector has been acknowledged as an actor having
responsibility in the new Sustainable Development Goals,
agreed upon by all member states of the UN in September
2015
Yesterday Tomorrow
Supply Chain and children´s rights – not only child labour
Children are affected in many areas:
- Directly vs in-directly
- Child labour - Young workers
- Education - Health
- Living conditions - Wages & working hours
- Child care - Parental aspects
- Children & work
- Actual context and motivational forces
- Pragmatic view on children and work
- Minimizing negative impact and maximizing positive impact
Current trends and challenges
- Geographical changes due to higher costs and labour shortage
- SDG focus connected to children´s rights
- Increased interest from areas within investments, vc, finance, etc
- Digitalization and technical solutions (e.g to increase transparency)
- Working age aspect (positive and negative)
- Batteries!
- Audit and compliance aspects
- Children as explicit stakeholders
- Proactivity vs reactivity
Date of Presentation
THE CHILDREN’S RIGHTS AND
BUSINESS PRINCIPLES
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Universal instruments
The Principles of the UN Global Compact
UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights
and Business (”the Ruggie-framework”)
UN Sustainable Development Goals
The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child
ILO (#138, #182 and several other conventions)
Policy Commitment, Due Diligence & Remediation
Left: Children’s Rights and Business Principles, 2012
Right: Children are Everyone’s Business – workbook developed by UNICEF, 2012
Policy Committment – CRBP 2 & 3
Are there policies in place stating minimum age for employment adapted to national laws and international standards?
Is there a defined approach to provide decent working conditions for young workers?
Examples of content:
Zero tolerance against hazardous and harmful work?
Child protection code of conduct (child safeguarding)
Defined core labour rights for young workers
Is this shared with ALL relevant stakeholders?
Room for policy interpretation?
Due diligence – CRBP 2 & 3
Is there a process in place to identify and assess risks and impacts related to minimum age aspects within the operation and value chain?
Is there a clear procedure in place on how to prevent, identify and address violations on young worker´s rights?
Examples of content:
Involvement of suppliers / business partners?
How does age control look like in reality?
Including aspects of parents and care givers?
Protection towards hazardous work and processes for addressing worst forms of child labour?
Skills development for young workers
Actions taken to support communities and fight root causes?
Remediation– CRBP 2 & 3
Is there formal grievance mechanism in place for receiving, processing, investigating and responding to violations regarding employment age aspects?
Examples of content:
Hotlines that work and are anonymous (including technology for this)
Whistleblowing functions adapted to context and stakeholders
Incident reporting structures (including local governments, officials, police, social workers, etc)
Including student workers and vocational school workers?
Examples of support in supply chain
Child Rights Impact Assessment – our model
Child Rights & Business – examples of collaborations
Workshop
- Vilka kopplingar ser ni i er verksamhet mellan barn och unga och era leverantörsled?
- Utmaningar och möjligheter
- Direkt och indirekt
- Vilka behov har ni för att lösa utmaningarna och komma vidare?