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Identify risks & adverse impacts

The Local Impact Hub database presents country and sector profiles that empower companies to assess risks and impacts in their value chain. The profiles are developed with data obtained through our global network to reflect the reality on the ground.

What We Do

Enhance your due diligence

Make better informed due diligence decisions and reach down your value chain.

Database

Compliment your due diligence with our expertise. Through our global network we developed publicly available country and sector profiles to give you a head start in identifying risks and adverse impacts.

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Support

The Local Impact Hub supports your due diligence journey with tailor-made actionable advice to effectively address risks and adverse impacts and realise a positive outcome

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Identifying risks & addressing adverse impacts is our expertise

Our approach is based on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights: The leading international standards on Business & Human Rights. We believe that due diligence is strengthened and more effective when structurally informed by local experts and stakeholders.

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The Latest News

On responsible business conduct in the value chains we cover.

March 2, 2023 March 2, 2023

What goes wrong with auditing and how to improve it

KPMG, the Swiss SGS SA, the German TÜV and 45 other auditing firms have ignored or simply missed environmental damage…

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Jaap Bartels

November 23, 2022 November 30, 2022

Obsessed with audit tools, missing the goal

“They [the auditing industry] get all obsessed with their audit tools and their reports and they miss the goal which…

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Jaap Bartels

March 2, 2022 March 2, 2022

Investing in human rights: Overcoming the human rights data problem

Why do human rights abuses by investee companies persist? And what can be done about it? In a Rotterdam School…

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Jaap Bartels

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