Managing high risk suppliers
What happens when audits find that contractors and suppliers are not meeting a worker welfare code or there is commercial pressure to ‘just make it work’?
Social Risk Consulting
Upholding values and value creation
Social Risk Consulting
Social Risk Due Diligence - Social Risk and Impact Assessment
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Consulting
Labour Monitoring and Labour Welfare Risk
Your organisation and its operations both influence and are influenced by the wider social framework in which they take place. Labour and human rights violations can occur at any point in your supply chain; environmental degradation, corruption or the impact of social and economic marginalisation not only cause serious harm to the community, but can make business unsustainable in the long run.
Environmental and social governance consulting
Control Risks environmental and social governance programmes have significant benefits beyond the reputational and ethical. Useful as a gauge of governance and risk management processes, ESG programmes can be an excellent long term framework to support value creation by mitigating long term, sometimes existential risks.
Social risk due diligence
We provide detailed analysis and evaluation of your operations and relationships in their social and political context, and against the backdrop of international human rights standards.
Stakeholder engagement
We can help you work with your local stakeholders to understand your positive and negative impacts, gain visibility on grievances and find ways to maintain positive engagement. Control Risks has long experience mapping local stakeholders and engaging with them in ways that lead to productive relationships for both sides.
By engaging with all relevant stakeholders we can help you fully assess all social risks and build mitigation programs that are holistic, synchronised across business functions and therefore sustainable for the long term.
Labour monitoring and labour welfare consulting
Businesses are increasingly being held to account to ensure they play their part in tackling modern slavery by safeguarding the welfare of workers in their supply chain. Extra-territorial legislation requiring disclosure of a company’s progress on mitigating these risks is becoming common.
Our emphasis is not just on monitoring for transgressions, but in building programmes that reduce to a minimum the potential for welfare violations.
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Hidden risks in your global supply chains
Businesses are increasingly being held to account to ensure they play their part in tackling the scourge of modern slavery by safeguarding the welfare of workers in their supply chain.
Managing labour welfare risks
Contract agreements and audits are both tools that, in isolation, have been shown time and again not to work.
Our thinking
Podcast
Kidnap risk increases in Cameroon
Secessionist groups in the anglophone regions of Cameroon have conducted a growing number of attacks on security forces since the last quarter of 2017.
Alliances
New oil along the West African coast
Long known as a base for diplomats, NGO workers and French families, the Senegalese capital Dakar is now showcasing its hospitality to a new type of guest. The changes are so far too discreet to be called a transformation.
Analysis
Chinese investment in South Africa
China is South Africa’s biggest trading partner and 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between South Africa and China.
Analysis
Its time to double down on Latin America - Part 2
As discussed in part one, a new regulatory environment is bound to change the rules of doing business in Latin America and companies should be ready to face new intrinsic challenges. However, there’s no need to panic – this new environment is also certain to result in significant openings for companies that recognize enforcement as an opportunity.
Report
Changing patterns in terrorism
The grip of the so-called Islamic State (IS) may have loosened in its Middle Eastern heartland, but the global threat posed by Islamist terrorism has grown and spread. Control Risks’ incident tracking shows the majority of Islamist attacks still...