Guide: Design Your Own Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence Approach

Use this guide to help your business prepare to implement Human Rights & Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD). Providing tools and resources, it will support you in how to best approach HREDD for your organisation. First published on Asia Garment Hub in October 2024.

This guide can help an organisation get ready to implement Human Rights & Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD). 

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Who the guide is for:

  1. Factory management and senior decision-makers.
  2. If applicable, persons responsible for legal and compliance, human resources, and/or operations.

This guide will help you to:

  • Understand what HREDD is and why it should be implemented within an organisation. 
  • Get an overview of tools and resources that can support how to approach HREDD.

What the guide covers:

Part 1: Getting the basics right

  • What is Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence.
  • How does developing HREDD benefit you.
  • Core elements of HREDD.
  • Sharing responsibility for people and the environment with buyers.

Part 2: Design your own HREDD approach

  • Understand your organisation.
  • Identify, prioritise, and continuously review your risks.
  • Address your risks and build your HREDD implementation plan.
  • Reflect and improve.

Other languages:

Design Your Own HREDD Approach in Khmer

Design Your Own HREDD Approach in Chinese




About this guide:

This guide was developed by TAFTAC in collaboration with Sustainable Links, Business & Human Rights Law Group and RBH Cambodia with support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, FABRIC Cambodia project. 

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