Business with purpose, grounded in respect for human rights.
About Us
Minerva BHR is an international consultancy company with established offices in Turkey and France that offers operational and strategic services focused on human rights and environmental due diligence.
We support companies in fulfilling their responsibilities to respect human rights throughout their activities and business relationships in their value chains by combining local knowledge with international best practice.
Minerva BHR aims to ensure meaningful implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights by providing insights and expertise tailored to companies’ individual, contextual and sectoral needs.
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Mission
Act as a strategic partner in advancing responsible business conduct and companies’ human rights journey.
Vision
A just and equitable future through collaborating with all stakeholders to transform business impacts on society
Approach
Minerva BHR advises companies on how to address human rights related risks and to embed human rights in their business practice by also utilising their already existing capabilities and mechanisms.
Our service offerings are designed to guide companies through each stage of their human rights and environmental responsibility journey. We focus on three key areas: Diagnose, Decode & Design, and Drive, providing a full spectrum of support from risk identification to long-term implementation and impact assessment.
Before any action can be taken, companies must first understand the human rights and environmental risks they face.
Once risks are identified, the next step is to develop strategies that effectively address these challenges.
Today, a company’s reputation is shaped less by advertising campaigns and more by the level of responsibility demonstrated by its partners across the supply chain. Weak contracts that fail to incorporate human rights and ESG environmental social governance obligations can result not only in severe sanctions but also in long term loss of trust.
Unilateral and standard contractual clauses are insufficient to ensure genuine compliance. Instead, contracts based on shared responsibility facilitate alignment with legal requirements such as the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and provide a strong foundation for meeting customer and investor expectations.
At Minerva BHR, we support companies in the following areas:
Trainings
Tailored trainings for procurement and legal teams highlighting the critical role of human rights and ESG aligned contracts.
Contract Drafting and Revision
Drafting and revising supply contracts to explicitly incorporate human rights and ESG responsibilities.
Advisory Services
Providing communication and capacity building support required to mainstream sustainable contracts throughout the supply chain.
Investors are no longer satisfied with commitments alone. They demand policies governance and evidence. Robust ESG and human rights policies have become not only compliance tools but also indicators of leadership.
At Minerva BHR, we work closely with leadership teams to ensure that company policies move beyond paper and become an integral part of daily operations:
Policy Development
Transforming corporate values and vision into actionable human rights and ESG policies.
Governance Structure
Defining clear roles and responsibilities for boards senior management and departments.
Operational Integration
Ensuring that policies are embedded into business processes across all units rather than remaining purely written commitments.
The first question investors ask is clear: What are your key risks and how do you manage them?
Risks related to human rights environment and climate change cannot be concealed. Litigation customer boycotts and social media inevitably bring them to light. Companies that fail to identify risks in a timely manner are caught unprepared.
At Minerva BHR, we help you turn risk management into a value creation tool by supporting your company in the following areas:
Impact Assessments
Conducting human rights and environmental impact assessments.
Department Based Action
Linking risks to relevant units such as Procurement Human Resources and Operations and developing actionable plans.
Measurable Outcomes
Integrating findings into KPIs and monitoring systems to ensure sustainable management.
A sustainability report is a company’s assurance to all of its stakeholders.
As customers, investors and regulators increasingly demand transparency, legal frameworks and standards such as CSRD GRI SASB TCFD and TSRS continuously raise the bar for reporting. Companies that fail to meet these expectations often face difficulties in accessing finance loss of commercial relationships and reputational erosion.
Minerva BHR helps transform reporting from a compliance obligation into a strategic communication and trust building tool:
Double Materiality Analysis
Ensuring a solid foundation for reporting through both financial and impact focused assessments.
Alignment with Standards
Aligning reports with legal requirements and global standards.
Reliable Data Systems
Managing ESG data in a transparent traceable and auditable manner.
Strategic Positioning
Designing reports not merely as compliance outputs but as confidence building communication tools for investors and customers.
Sustainability lives in every decision and every department of a company.
At Minerva BHR, we offer tailor made training and capacity building programmes to support institutions on their sustainability journey. Beyond knowledge transfer, our trainings aim to equip participants with the ability to apply ESG principles in their daily business processes.
We support companies in the following areas:
Human Rights and Labour Standards
Human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) and responsible practices across the supply chain.
Cross Cutting Issues
Gender equality prevention of workplace harassment migrant workers and inclusive and fair workplace culture.
Organisation Specific Programmes
Customised content tailored to sector department and management level.
Practical Workshops
Case based workshops for Human Resources Procurement Operations Legal Compliance and Marketing teams.
💡 Training Modules Developed Within This Scope:
Fundamentals of ESG
Conceptual and legal foundations of sustainability and ESG
Global Outlook
Economic political and ecological trends
Corporate Sustainability and Supply Chains
HREDD and responsible supply chain management
Reporting and Strategy
CSRD GRI SASB TCFD and TSRS standards
Inclusive Governance
Diversity equality and ethical leadership
Sustainable Finance and Carbon Markets
ESG finance carbon markets and regulatory frameworks
New Frontiers in Science and Technology
Artificial intelligence clean energy biodiversity and innovation
Many companies have a grievance mechanism but very few function effectively. Zero complaints usually indicate not satisfaction but a system where problems are unheard or suppressed.
An effective grievance mechanism acts as an early warning system for employees supply chain workers affected communities and the company itself. When the mechanism fails risks go underground and remain unnoticed until they erupt.
Sensitive complaints such as gender based discrimination harassment and workplace bullying require specially designed mechanisms separate from standard grievance procedures. In such cases it is critical to act swiftly confidentially and in a trust based manner before irreversible harm occurs to the victim. Therefore a different model must be applied to enable earlier intervention and ensure protection of the affected individual.
At Minerva BHR, we support companies in transforming grievance mechanisms from paper based systems into genuinely operational ones:
Accessible and Trustworthy Channels
Designing grievance channels that are easily accessible and available in multiple languages and formats.
Fair Transparent and Traceable Processes
Ensuring fair assessment of complaints and transparency at every stage.
Digital and Integrated Solutions
Establishing digital mechanisms integrated with Human Resources and Compliance systems and trackable through unique reference numbers.
Continuous Learning and Improvement
Using grievance data not only for resolution but also for risk prevention and organisational learning.
🔑 Core characteristics of an effective mechanism include legitimacy accessibility predictability fairness transparency rights compatibility and contribution to continuous learning.
New regulations. New standards. New investor expectations. ESG never stands still.
CFOs CHROs and Procurement Directors often struggle to manage ESG risks while keeping up with a constantly evolving agenda. A reliable and continuously accessible partner enables your company to remain up to date and move ahead of competitors on its ESG journey.
Minerva BHR works side by side with companies and their stakeholders to place human rights at the centre of sustainability:
Coaching
Regular ESG coaching for executives and teams.
Updates
Periodic information flow on new laws regulations and investor expectations.
Strategic Support
Rapid context specific and goal oriented solutions when challenges arise.
If your company is caught unprepared for audits your chances of success diminish from the outset.
Regardless of sector whether textile automotive agriculture or energy social audits have become an integral part of doing business. Successful companies however do not merely aim to pass audits but embed a culture of audit readiness into their organisations.
At Minerva BHR, we support companies in the following areas:
Preparation
Preparing all teams particularly Procurement and Operations for audits.
Testing and Analysis
Conducting mock audits and detailed gap analyses to identify weaknesses.
Continuous Improvement
Designing audit readiness as a long term system rather than a one off process.
Climate transition plans are not limited to carbon reduction alone. True transformation is sustainable only when it fairly includes workers communities and supply chains.
Across energy textile agriculture or industry green transition creates both new opportunities and new risks. Just Transition ensures that this process is managed not only environmentally but also socially responsibly.
At Minerva BHR, we support companies in designing and implementing just transition plans:
Employment and Transition
Analysing the impacts of transition plans on workers and managing job losses new job opportunities reskilling and re employment processes.
Fair Wages and Social Protection
Ensuring that newly created jobs provide fair wages supported by social protection and benefits.
Stakeholder Engagement
Establishing dialogue mechanisms with worker representatives trade unions communities and Indigenous Peoples to involve them in design and implementation.
Community Engagement
Safeguarding free prior and informed consent processes for local communities and Indigenous Peoples and establishing mechanisms for dispute resolution.
Supply Chain Impacts
Assessing the impacts of transition plans on supply chain workers and developing inclusive mitigation measures.
For every company exporting to the EU the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism CBAM is now a reality bringing additional costs for carbon intensive products and strict reporting obligations. Companies that are unprepared face significant financial and reputational risks.
Carbon intensive sectors such as iron and steel aluminium cement fertilisers electricity and hydrogen fall within the scope of CBAM. While the initial phase focuses on reporting obligations subsequent phases will introduce emission based financial costs.
Companies must calculate and report not only production emissions but also the carbon footprint of all intermediate inputs used in complex products. CBAM compliance therefore requires not only technical reporting capacity but also robust data collection across the entire supply chain.
At Minerva BHR, we support companies in the following areas:
Compliance Roadmap
Developing step by step compliance plans for CBAM transition and implementation phases.
Data and Reporting Systems
Ensuring accurate collection of emission data across the supply chain and reporting in line with EU requirements.
Capacity Building
Providing training and guidance on CBAM for procurement operations and sustainability teams.
Audit and Preparedness
Identifying risks in advance through emission calculation methodologies gap analyses and mock reporting.