UN Global Compact Business & Human Rights Accelerator 2026/2027 – YOA

Deadline: November 30, 2026

Applications are open for the UN Global Compact Business & Human Rights Accelerator 2026/2027. Business is about individuals. Directly or not directly, companies usually impression the human rights of their staff and contract staff, staff of their provide chains, the communities round their operations and the tip customers of their services or products. Businesses impression just about all the spectrum of internationally acknowledged human rights. As a end result, firms have each a duty and an OPPORTUNITY to advance human rights throughout their operations, provide chains and past.

The Business & Human Rights Accelerator is a 3-month programme designed to assist firms flip their dedication to human rights and labour rights into motion. Through world workshops, regional and in-nation peer studying, on-demand sources and steering from Global Compact Country Networks, contributors apply human rights due diligence to their very own enterprise context.

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

Benefits

• A sensible Action Plan to deal with your most salient human rights and labour rights dangers.
• A transparent place to begin on your firm’s human rights journey and obligations.
• Prioritized dangers and impacts throughout your worth chain.
• An ongoing due diligence method aligned with the UN Guiding Principles.
• Readiness for evolving necessities on human rights due diligence.
• Stronger stakeholder engagement and treatment to deal with impacts on individuals.
• A community of friends, UN companions and specialists to help continued motion.
• A certificates of completion recognizing your participation within the Accelerator.

Eligibility

The Accelerator is designed for firms with a foundational understanding of human rights and labour rights which can be able to put this data into observe. It helps firms 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, firms are required to be contributors of the UN Global Compact or prepared to affix.

Your firm must also be:

• Currently engaged with a Global Compact Country Network in your area or prepared to affix;
• 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-degree representatives to attend classes and take part in Accelerator actions and an extra govt-degree consultant to observe programme developments, present help and take part in excessive-degree occasions;
• Commit to making use of the programme outcomes throughout the corporate’s technique and operations.

Application

Fill out the shape with data in your firm and its nominated representatives for the programme. These representatives could also be modified at a later date. Applications shut on 30 November 2026. We encourage you to apply as quickly as potential as house is restricted.

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For extra data, go to UN Global Compact Business & Human Rights Accelerator.