Taking a Smart-Mix Approach to Action on Human Rights

This Briefing Note was originally published by Proforest.

This Briefing Note aims to support downstream and large midstream companies in the agricultural and forestry sectors to implement meaningful Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) by prioritising origins and human rights issues using a risk-based process.
A Smart-Mix Approach refers to the appropriate mix of actions taken by a company to address the root causes of a known salient human rights issue in a particular geography. The collection of actions involves within supply chain action (e.g. supplier engagement on Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) or supplier level projects) and beyond supply chain actions (e.g. engagement with governments, landscape/jurisdictional initiatives, collaboration with peer companies).