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.
Services
Before any action can be taken, companies must first understand the human rights and environmental risks they face. In this phase, Minerva BHR provides in-depth diagnostic services that uncover these risks across all areas of a business’s operations. Using our expertise in industry-specific regulations and global standards, we conduct thorough assessments that reveal both immediate and long-term challenges, enabling businesses to prioritize their responses.
Our Diagnostic Services Include:
Human Rights Impact Assessment:
We perform human rights impact assessments (HRIAs) on supply chains and operations in diverse sectors, including automotive, energy, agriculture, resource extraction, and manufacturing. Our methodology aligns with mandatory laws and international best practices, and relies on contextual research, engagement with rights holders, collaboration with stakeholders, saliency analysis and prioritization.
Due Diligence:
We provide support for integration of HREDD by performing risk assessments across transactions, operations, and supply chains, assessing existing processes, facilitating discussions with business teams, comparing practices with industry peers, and collaborating with stakeholders.
Workplace Evaluations:
We conduct workplace evaluations, typically in response to complaints, utilizing innovative methods that prioritize worker input. This helps us identify the root causes impacting workers and determine ways to implement improvements.
Once risks are identified, the next step is to develop strategies that effectively address these challenges. At Minerva BHR, we collaborate with our clients to decode complex human rights issues and design actionable solutions that are both practical and aligned with international standards. We ensure that businesses not only comply with regulations but also build sustainable practices that foster long-term success.
Our Decode & Design Services Include:
Training:
We create and deliver training programs for clients, covering subjects such as HREDD, labour standards, and broader topics like gender equality, forced labour indicators, and safeguarding migrant workers.
Grievance:
We specialize in reviewing, developing, and managing operational complaints and grievance mechanisms in alignment with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
Implementation & Remediation:
We design and help our clients to implement remediation programs in workplaces and through their supply chains. Focus areas include GBVH, child labour, forced labour, migrant rights, OHS.
Strategic Guidance & Capacity Building:
We support clients to determine priorities and strategic goals by engaging stakeholders, assessing current commitments, evaluating regulatory compliance and using external benchmarking. We work to improve employment practices and human rights outcomes in workplaces by conducting needs and gap analysis. Focus areas can include advancing gender equality, implementing living wage programs and improving OHS.
The final phase of our services ensures that human rights strategies are effectively integrated into business operations and continually improved upon. Minerva BHR provides ongoing support to monitor and evaluate the impact of the actions, helping companies stay accountable and responsive to evolving challenges. We also assist businesses in communicating their progress to stakeholders, enhancing transparency and building trust.
Main Reporting Standards:
- Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
- European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
- EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities
- Turkish Sustainability Reporting Standards (TSRS)
Our Drive Services Include:
ESG & Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Strategic Communication:
We provide regular advice to companies in fulfilling their ESG and corporate sustainability reporting obligations under the relevant legislation, supported by a sector and company-specific approach. We support the companies creating a reporting framework as part of their HREDD mechanism in light of the legal standards and industry benchmarks. Stakeholders being at the core of the HREDD process, we support companies in establishing and maintaining strategic communication and transparent dialogue with all stakeholders who may be affected by their operations.
Monitoring & Evaluation:
We design and operate monitoring mechanisms for companies in their HREDD journey, with determined KPIs to track and evaluate the impact they create through the measures and actions taken as a result of the risk assessment.
Responsible Contracting:
We assist the companies in formulating a framework for responsible contracting through their business activities.