UN Global Compact Business & Human Rights Accelerator Program 2025 – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline: 19 December 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 UN Global Compact Business & Human Rights Accelerator Program. The Business & Human Rights Accelerator is a six-month programme activating firms collaborating within the UN Global Compact throughout industries and areas. The goal is to assist companies swiftly transfer from dedication to motion on human rights and labour rights by way of establishing an ongoing human rights due diligence course of.

Requirements

To take part within the Business & Human Rights Accelerator, firms are required to be contributors of the UN Global Compact or prepared to hitch. Your firm also needs to be:

• Commit to finishing the programme and embedding the learnings throughout the corporate technique and operations
  
• Currently engaged with a Global Compact Country Network in your area or prepared to hitch
• Willing to determine its human rights dangers and impacts and scope a core space of your worth chain for additional focus
• Committed to creating an Action Plan to assist handle the human rights dangers recognized and prioritized
• Able to nominate two working-level representatives to attend classes and take part in Accelerator actions and a further executive-level consultant to observe programme developments, present assist and take part in high-level occasions

Benefits

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• An understanding of the place your organization is on their human rights journey
• An evaluation of precise and potential opposed human rights impacts and the flexibility to prioritize motion
• The data about steps to take to mitigate your human rights impacts, together with grievance mechanisms and treatment
• Ways to successfully interact stakeholders on operational impacts on individuals
• An motion plan to advance human rights in your organization and past
• A community of friends, UN companions and specialists to assist your human rights journey and work collectively to sort out persistent obstacles to human rights due diligence.
• A certificates demonstrating completion of programme

Application Timeline:

• Application Opens: 10 September 2025
• Application Dealine: 19 December 2025
• Accelerator Begins: February 2026
  (Please check precise dates along with your Global Compact Country Network)

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the UN Global Compact Business & Human Rights Accelerator Program