PLANNING & FINANCE
Planning is a critical starting point to embed human rights. So too is how a project is financed.
Investors and their expected returns will have a significant impact on whether a project or business prioritises positive social outcomes, including when governments are attracting private finance.
Click the overarching and stage-specific principles below to review the guiding questions across this stage. These questions will help you to identify the main human rights risks and opportunities and develop a tailored action plan.
Systemic and past injustices are taken into account
Guiding questions
Does the project planning and design process take account of ethnic, racial, religious, economic or other divisions that may have defined the area in which it is being developed?
When there is such a context, have adequate steps been taken to ensure the project does not reinforce these divisions, and seeks to identify opportunities to help bridge them? This includes assessing different governance and ownership models
Have relevant stakeholders, particularly investors, considered the long-term and systemic value of upholding human rights principles and practices, and the risks of not doing so?
