Toolkit on national action plans for business and human rights

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1 May 2019

Guidelines for national leaders and administrations to integrate respect for human rights into corporate culture by developing national action plans.

This Toolkit provides step-by-step guidance on how to develop national action plans (NAPs) on business and human rights.

The 2017 edition of the Toolkit on national action plans for business and human rights is an update of our widely cited 2014 edition, both produced in collaboration with the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR).

The 2017 edition has been updated to reflect feedback from practitioners who have used the Toolkit to develop NAPs. Specifically, the Toolkit provides step-by-step guidance on how to develop a NAP that is framed by a human rights-based approach promoting participation, non-discrimination, transparency, and accountability.

Each section within the 2017 Toolkit contains good practice examples from around the world to demonstrate what can be achieved.

Please also visit globalnaps.org - a website mapping national action plans on business and human rights globally - discover:

countries that already have NAPs
countries with an official commitment to development a NAP
countries where non-state actors have taken efforts to start a NAP development process.

This toolkit has underpinned the DIHR’s work on National Action Plans in Chile, Denmark, Kenya and Georgia, amongst others.

A range of further resources to complement this Toolkit have been developed by the DIHR and other actors and are available at www.globalnaps.org/resources