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
Analysis
A bridge to Hong Kong's centrally planned future?
A bridge to Hong Kong’s centrally planned future? The recent opening of the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau sea bridge is a symbol of Beijing’s plan to draw the disparate pieces of southern China’s US$1.5trillion GDP into an integrated whole.
Analysis
Creating compliant organizations
Several lessons can be drawn from our background and honed expertise in helping clients see around unexpected corners—whether those be geopolitical in nature, compliance related or high-stakes security and risk. Here we summarized six common pitfalls and blind spots related to building and maintaining a compliant organization.
Report
The future of energy in Africa
The energy sector in Africa has received much attention from businesses and investors over the past ten years. The coming years will bring further shifts in policy priorities and investment trends, heralding both new opportunities and fresh challenges.
Video
US Midterm Elections
Jonathan Wood discusses the results of the US midterm elections and the key takeaways for global business. Tune in for his take from Washington, DC.
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Brazil election result: Jair Messias Bolsonaro
What will be the impact of a Bolsonaro’s presidency on the business environment in Brazil? Thomaz Favaro discusses the key implications of the elections result.