This Converged HREDD Assessment Tool was developed collaboratively by AIM-Progress, the Consumer Goods Forum Human Rights Coalition, FLA and Proforest.
The intent is to converge assessment approaches to HREDD across industries. It allows companies to:
- Self-assess HREDD systems in own operations and supply chains
- Engage suppliers in identifying and addressing potential risks
- Streamline due diligence processes, aligned with OECD and UNGP standards
Created through extensive member collaboration and built on feedback from buyers and suppliers, this tool fosters global alignment while reducing reporting burden.
Some principles for roll-out:
- By offering this converged HREDD assessment tool to the industry we are striving to reduce duplication and encourage mutual recognition of assessment efforts, this being a major foundational principle of AIM-Progress.
- The tool is free and open source. Its use is voluntary, and companies can deploy it as part of their responsible sourcing and HREDD strategies.
- Companies may wish to have results of supplier self-assessments verified by an external third party. The results of that verification procedure belong to the party who pays for the verification (as is the case for audits). Owners of verification results are strongly encouraged to share them with other companies to promote mutual recognition and avoid duplication of assessment and verification efforts.
- We also encourage collaboration on action planning to close out gaps and build capability. AIM-Progress will use the converged HREDD assessment tool as a foundational basis for its supplier capability building programme and can help facilitate collaboration between companies, whilst ensuring compliance with anti-trust legislation.
- We will encourage the integration of the tool into existing supplier assessment platforms that our members are using.