Investor Guidance

Developed by RCP and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), the Investor Guidance on Responsible Contracting equips investors to engage their portfolio companies on how they integrate human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) into their commercial contracts.

The Guidance provides an overview of key concepts to explain the critical role that due diligence-aligned contracts play in promoting better HREDD, better HRE outcomes, and better legal compliance. It includes the following tools (downloadable at the bottom of this page) for carrying out company engagement:

Sample questions that investors can use in their dialogues with companies
A template shareholder resolution
A template investor engagement letter
Sample responses to frequent pushback (“FPBs”) from companies.

These tools can help investors assess whether companies are using their international supply contracts in a way that supports—or undermines—effective HREDD processes.