Social Risk Mapping

Global supply chains are complex and vast, encompassing multifaceted and often labor-intensive production processes and actors across various countries and jurisdictions.

The complexity of these supply chains can restrict a company's visibility into supplier practices and the environments in which they operate, and thus hamper their ability to manage impacts on workers, communities, and the environment.

Our Social Risk Mapping Program leverages our independent research, on-the-ground work, and long-standing partnerships with organizations and businesses. It is designed to provide companies a comprehensive understanding of the potential issues and risks related to the sources, processes, and suppliers of materials and services that form part of their business. 

We work hand-in-hand with our clients and have customized tools, approaches, and strategies to analyze macro and micro risk factors specific to sectors, geographies and migration corridors, workforce and supplier profiles, and our client companies’ own systems, structures, and practices that may affect their ability to meet human rights and ESG targets.

Contact us to learn more about 

  • Human rights impact assessments (HRIA) 
  • Ethics and governance risks
  • Recruitment-related forced labor risks
  • Labor rights risks in the production and trade of seafood, palm oil, coconut, cocoa, sugar, and other raw commodities 
  • Human rights risks in the electronics, apparel, logistics, and other sectors
  • Precarity and other social risks in the recycling and informal sectors