UN FORUM SERIES – radical transparency, or how to use public data for large scale social-impact assessments

This post was contributed by Paul Middelkoop, human rights researcher at Questionmark. One of the biggest challenges for a company that wants to align its conduct with the United Nations Guiding Principles (UNGPs) is to determine the salience of many different risks across a complex supply chain. This is why, with the increased demand for social impact reporting, several new management tools have emerged to help businesses map their human rights risks and manage their responsibilities (for instance, Irene Pietropaoli outlined several tools related to human trafficking in an earlier post).