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
Made in Rwanda? Up to 5,000 cars to be produced in Rwanda per year
German car manufacturer Volkswagen AG made headlines when it announced it would establish a new car assembly plant in Rwanda.
Analysis
M&A opportunities: a focus on Nigeria and Malaysia
It goes without saying that elections matter when investors are looking at the attractiveness of M&A opportunities. Pending elections can freeze a market like no other political event.
Newsletter
US hits Russian businesses with new sanctions
In this Newsletter we talk about the US and the anti-Russia sanctions law and the political transitions in the South Caucasus.
Newsletter
South Africa: Infighting to damage opposition election prospects
In this issue of Africa Riskwatch we talk about the race for the 2019 South Africa elections, government reform in Angola, Mozambique giving creditors debt restructuring options and Zimbabwe's mining sector.
Blog Post
Women’s Day in a corner of the post-Soviet space
Control Risks Blog: In Kyrgyzstan, as well as 11 other former Soviet countries and a number of others further afield, International Women’s Day is a national holiday. Eimear O’Casey finds that not all Kyrgyzstani women are happy about the way it is marked.