Ghana: UNDP Challenge to Promote Accountable Enterprise Conduct Launched

The United Nations Growth Programme (UNDP), Ghana has launched a Enterprise and Human Rights (B+HR) challenge aimed toward selling accountable enterprise conduct within the nation.

The challenge fashioned a part of the UNDP world challenge with funding from the federal government of Japan to advertise accountable enterprise practices in 17 nations together with Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique in Africa.

It was below the theme;’Selling Accountable Enterprise Conduct with a selected deal with selling Human Proper Due Diligence in world provide chains and leveraging the UN Guiding Precept on Enterprise and Human Rights for a simply restoration.’

Talking on the launch in Accra on Wednesday, the UNDP Deputy Resident Consultant,Mr SukhrobKhoshmukhamedov, mentioned the challenge would strengthen efforts to higher equip governments and corporations to know and act upon their duties and obligations to stop human proper abuses comparable to pressured labour, land grabbing and discrimination amongst others.

He mentioned it will additionally information corporations to hold out Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) to evaluate, forestall and mitigate antagonistic impacts and would profit companies that display clear operations to have clear benefits in putting their merchandise in the marketplace.

“UNDP’s huge expertise in implementing its Enterprise and Human Rights initiative and selling HRDD has confirmed that companies of all sizes may be brokers of optimistic change,” he added.

Mr Khoshmukhamedov mentioned UNDP would work with governments to create a stage taking part in area that might inspire extra corporations to embrace accountable enterprise practices.

“UNDP and Japan hope to additional the achievements of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Growth and can proceed to help efforts aimed toward selling the rights of all and accelerating the achievement of the SDGs by means of all its interventions in Ghana,” he acknowledged.

The Deputy Commissioner of the Fee on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mrs Mercy Larbi, mentioned Ghana was within the technique of growing Nationwide Motion Plan on Enterprise and Human Rights based mostly on the United Nations Guiding Ideas which anchored on three pillars specifically respect, defend and treatment.

In accordance with her, a steering committee was at present within the technique of drafting the Motion Plan and expressed optimism that it will be prepared by the top of the 12 months which companies can be required to supply HRDD as a prerequisite to function within the nation.

MrsLarbi expressed theCommission’s appreciation to the UNDP, the Japanese authorities and all stakeholders in direction of the event of the Nationwide Motion Plan, including, “The motion plan, when prepared and operational will go alongside approach to enhance the human rights scenario in Ghana.”

The Deputy Lawyer-Normal and Minister for Justice, Mrs Diana AsonabaDapaah, famous that, the challenge aligns with the imaginative and prescient of the Lawyer-Normal and warranted of the workplace’s dedication to help the challenge obtain its goal.

She urged companies to not see the initiative as a risk however moderately a chance to be optimistic change makers in direction of the attainment of the SDG.

The Japanese Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Mochizuki Hisanobu, expressed its steady help to create extra enabling setting for companies, and that of the challenge to positively and considerably affect enterprise growth in Ghana.