NMC – 29 November 2018- Människorna bakom leverantörskedjan

Agenda NMC - 29 November 2018

- Intro och presentation

- Kort om Rädda Barnen

- Leverantörsled – ur ett barnperspektiv

- Direkt och indirekt påverkan

- Kontext och drivkrafter

- Trender och utmaningar just nu

- Förslag på lösningar

- Children´s Rights and Business Principles (CRBP)

- Child Rights & Business – vad, hur och varför

- Business Case: Kina – migrantarbetare och barn

- Frågor och diskussion

Children's rights – the ultimate definition of sustainability

children in the world can’t read

152 million children

in child labour

due to migrating parents looking for work

60 million children are affected

by wars and emergencies

every year

are engaged in hazardous work

73 million children

There are 2.2 billion 250 million children

60 million Chinese children “left behind”

= 1/3 of world population

The world's leading, independent organization for Children

Convention on the Rights of the Child is the foundation on which we build our work. We dream of a world where we no longer are needed, a world...

• where the CRC is realized and the rights of all children are met

• which respects and values each child

• where we listen to and learn from children

• giving every child hope for the future and opportunities

Fact sheet Save the Children

Child Protection

Health & nutrition

EducationHIV/AIDS EmergenciesChild right

governance

Save the Children’s thematic areas

Save the children is active in 120 countries

Quick facts:

• Founded in 1919

• 30 member organizations

• Active in 120 countries

• Income of US$1.6 billion a year

Our vision:

Is a world in which every child attains the right to survival,

protection, development and participation

Our Mission:

Is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting

change in their lives.

The corporate sector and impact on children

The corporate sector has a great opportunity to

change its impact on children…

…and there is a large shift in how corporations are

willing to address their own impact on society

Direct impact on children and

parents in the workplace, e.g.

− Child labor

− Juvenile workers

− Migrant workers*

Indirect impact as a family and

society member, e.g.

− Land exploitation

− Children and climate change

− Economy and living standards

Direct impact on children as

citizens and consumers, e.g.:

− Child targeted marketing

− Normative body ideals

− Dangerous/bad toys

− Cyberbullying

− Unhealthy food

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• The corporate sustainability agenda evolves rapidly with great

attention from CEOs

− 93% of global CEOs state that sustainability is important for

their business (Accenture’s Global CEO study 2013)

− Sustainability is gaining more importance on the CEO agenda

and is recognized as a driver for being a top CEO (Harvard

Business Review leadership ranking 2015)

• Companies are either doing more themselves and/or demanding

more from NGOs

− The private sector has been acknowledged as an actor having

responsibility in the new Sustainable Development Goals,

agreed upon by all member states of the UN in September

2015

Yesterday Tomorrow

Supply Chain and children´s rights – not only child labour

Children are affected in many areas:

- Directly vs in-directly

- Child labour - Young workers

- Education - Health

- Living conditions - Wages & working hours

- Child care - Parental aspects

- Children & work

- Actual context and motivational forces

- Pragmatic view on children and work

- Minimizing negative impact and maximizing positive impact

Current trends and challenges

- Geographical changes due to higher costs and labour shortage

- SDG focus connected to children´s rights

- Increased interest from areas within investments, vc, finance, etc

- Digitalization and technical solutions (e.g to increase transparency)

- Working age aspect (positive and negative)

- Batteries!

- Audit and compliance aspects

- Children as explicit stakeholders

- Proactivity vs reactivity

Date of Presentation

THE CHILDREN’S RIGHTS AND

BUSINESS PRINCIPLES

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Universal instruments

The Principles of the UN Global Compact

UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights

and Business (”the Ruggie-framework”)

UN Sustainable Development Goals

The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child

ILO (#138, #182 and several other conventions)

Policy Commitment, Due Diligence & Remediation

Left: Children’s Rights and Business Principles, 2012

Right: Children are Everyone’s Business – workbook developed by UNICEF, 2012

Policy Committment – CRBP 2 & 3

Are there policies in place stating minimum age for employment adapted to national laws and international standards?

Is there a defined approach to provide decent working conditions for young workers?

Examples of content:

Zero tolerance against hazardous and harmful work?

Child protection code of conduct (child safeguarding)

Defined core labour rights for young workers

Is this shared with ALL relevant stakeholders?

Room for policy interpretation?

Due diligence – CRBP 2 & 3

Is there a process in place to identify and assess risks and impacts related to minimum age aspects within the operation and value chain?

Is there a clear procedure in place on how to prevent, identify and address violations on young worker´s rights?

Examples of content:

Involvement of suppliers / business partners?

How does age control look like in reality?

Including aspects of parents and care givers?

Protection towards hazardous work and processes for addressing worst forms of child labour?

Skills development for young workers

Actions taken to support communities and fight root causes?

Remediation– CRBP 2 & 3

Is there formal grievance mechanism in place for receiving, processing, investigating and responding to violations regarding employment age aspects?

Examples of content:

Hotlines that work and are anonymous (including technology for this)

Whistleblowing functions adapted to context and stakeholders

Incident reporting structures (including local governments, officials, police, social workers, etc)

Including student workers and vocational school workers?

Examples of support in supply chain

Child Rights Impact Assessment – our model

Child Rights & Business – examples of collaborations

Workshop

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