UN Global Compact Business & Human Rights Accelerator Program 2026/2027

Application Deadline: 30 November 2026

Applications are actually open for the 2027 UN Global Compact Business & Human Rights Accelerator Program. The Business & Human Rights Accelerator is a three-month programme designed to assist corporations flip their dedication to human rights and labour rights into motion. Through world workshops, regional and in-country peer studying, on-demand assets and steering from Global Compact Country Networks, contributors apply human rights due diligence to their very own enterprise context.

The Accelerator helps corporations scope their worth chain, determine and prioritize their most salient human rights and labour rights dangers and outline actions to handle them in keeping with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and different worldwide requirements.

By the tip of the programme, corporations may have a sensible Action Plan to take ahead inside their enterprise — transferring from understanding and dedication to concrete motion.

Requirements

The Accelerator is designed for corporations with a foundational understanding of human rights and labour rights which are able to put this data into follow. It helps corporations in turning present commitments right into a sensible plan of motion and taking the subsequent step in advancing human rights due diligence. To take part on this programme, corporations are required to be contributors of the UN Global Compact or keen to hitch. Your firm must also be:

• Currently engaged with a Global Compact Country Network in your area or keen 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 growing and submitting an Action Plan to assist tackle the human rights dangers recognized and prioritized
• Committed to finishing all the obligatory programme necessities
• Able to nominate two working-level representatives to attend periods and take part in Accelerator actions and an extra executive-level consultant to observe programme developments, present help and take part in high-level occasions
• Commit to making use of the programme outcomes throughout the corporate’s technique and operations

PROGRAMME BENEFITS
The Business & Human Rights Accelerator is a three-month programme designed to assist corporations flip their dedication to human
rights and labour rights into motion. Through world workshops, regional and in-country peer studying, on-demand assets and steering
from Global Compact Country Networks, contributors apply human rights due diligence to their very own enterprise context.

The Accelerator helps corporations scope their worth chain, determine and prioritize their most salient human rights and labour rights dangers and
outline actions to handle them in keeping with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and different worldwide requirements.
By the tip of the programme, corporations may have a sensible Action Plan to take ahead inside their enterprise — transferring from
understanding and dedication to concrete motion.

▪ Develop a sensible Action Plan to handle your organization’s most salient human rights and labour rights dangers and outline clear subsequent
steps for motion.
▪ Put human rights due diligence into follow with knowledgeable steering grounded within the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human
Rights and different worldwide requirements.
▪ Apply sensible instruments and assets to scope your worth chain, assess and prioritize dangers, interact stakeholders, strengthen treatment
and monitor progress.
▪ Learn from friends and main consultants by world workshops, regional and in-country peer studying, and change with corporations
going through related challenges.
▪ Strengthen your readiness for evolving necessities by aligning your method with worldwide requirements and rising human
rights due diligence expectations.
▪ Receive a certificates recognizing profitable completion of the Business & Human Rights Accelerator.

Application Deadline:

Application Deadline: 30 November 2026
▪ Accelerator Begins: February 2027 (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