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
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Election in Guatemala
Twenty candidates are running for President of Guatemala, in a campaign where the key issues have been unemployment, security, corruption and the continuity of the UN-backed anti-corruption body CICIG.
Analysis
India elections: Expect reforms and economic populism under Modi 2.0
Having finally concluded its gargantuan electoral process, India is on the cusp of electing a new government that will determine the direction of the country for the next five years. Few expect the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to lose its ruling status...
Analysis
Global sanctions compliance and enforcement and how to navigate them
Today, companies have to navigate a complex global sanctions landscape. Understanding the evolving sanctions landscape is vital for them to assess and enhance their compliance structures.
Analysis
Indonesia election: President Jokowi likely to win a second term
More than 192 million Indonesian voters on 17 April will elect officials to over 20,000 public offices - including the presidency - in the world’s largest election held on a single day.
Newsletter
Top 5 Risks 2019
Each year, Control Risks’ decides the top 5 Risks for businesses in the coming year. While these are global in scope, here we discuss how they will drive developments in the business environment in the Middle East and North Africa in 2019.