Technical Guidance on Due Diligence for Living Income

This guide from Shift and the Living Income Community of Practice provides a practical and comprehensive framework that can help you to implement human rights due diligence (HRDD) for living income in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). The guide highlights the risks and opportunities for companies in relation, explains the structural and systemic determinants of the lack of living income, and lays out a four-part approach for implementing HRDD for living income: identifying and assessing living income risks in the supply chain, taking action, tracking performance and effectiveness, and communicating progress and learnings with stakeholders.

Although created with the agribusiness industry in mind, many of the lessons and recommendations in this resource are applicable to across the industry spectrum.