UNGC Decent Work Toolkit for Sustainable Procurement:
Chapter on Responsible Contracting
RCP contributed a chapter on Responsible Contracting to the UN Global Compact’s Decent Work Toolkit for Sustainable Procurement. The Decent Work Toolkit supports action to improve labor conditions for workers in global supply chains. RCP’s chapter outlines the why and how of Responsible Contracting by making the business case for Responsible Contracting and explaining how it supports transparency and compliance with key human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) laws like the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and the German Supply Chains Act (LkSG), as well as with trade sanction laws like the EU Forced Labor Regulation (EU FLR) and the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). It also provides practical tools from our Toolkit and real-world case studies from sectors including apparel, agriculture, and tech.
Latest News
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May 1 — RCP published a new analysis of the CSDDD and contracting in light of Omnibus I on the Oxford Business Law Blog: Moving Toward Shared Responsibility: How the EU’s CSDDD and Omnibus I Reimagine Contracting for Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence. Also available as a PDF.
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April 27 — RCP Director Sarah Dadush and Senior Advisor John Sherman co-authored an essay for Shift's series marking the 15th anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), titled, From Social Norm to Legal Practice: Fifteen Years of Integrating the UNGPs into Business Law.
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April 16 — RCP Director Sarah Dadush penned an op-ed in Sourcing Journal arguing responsible contracting is the antidote to supply chain uncertainty: Latest Tariff Chaos Demands a Rethink of Supply Contracts. Also available as a PDF.
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April 9 — RCP has launched its latest tool, the Responsible Contracting in Spice Supply Chains Guidance, developed in collaboration with the Sustainable Spice Initiative (SSI).
Events
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June 2 — RCP Director Sarah Dadush facilitated "Contracting for Sustainability," a workshop at the 2026 Annual Conference on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing, co-organized by NYU School of Law's Grunin Center and the Impact Investing Legal Working Group, drawing over 40 participants.
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May 19 — Senior Advisor Ben Rutledge spoke at the Sustainable Vanilla Initiative (SVI) General Assembly in Paris, joining industry members and value chain actors for a session on governance, procurement, and collective action in the vanilla sector.
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May 14 — Senior Advisor Ben Rutledge presented RCP's Responsible Contracting in Spice Supply Chains Guidance at the Sustainable Spices Initiative (SSI) General Assembly 2026 in Murcia, Spain, attended by nearly 100 delegates from around 50 organizations.
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May 8 — Senior Advisor Ben Rutledge participated in "From Transposition to Transformation: Designing and Enforcing Effective National HREDD Laws," a policymaker workshop co-organized by NOVA BHRE, BIICL, HIVA/KU Leuven, UNDP, Global Rights Compliance, and Westfälische Hochschule at NOVA School of Law in Lisbon.
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April 23 — RCP Director Sarah Dadush spoke on purchasing practices at Sourcing Journal's SJ Sustainability summit, Road to 2030: Dealing With Detours.
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