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💡 Published today! 🔎 Curious about how we evaluate the performance of National Contact Points (NCPs)? We have updated our key performance indicators for assessing NCP performance. Each indicator is designed to evaluate how well NCPs meet the core effectiveness criteria and recommendations set out in the updated OECD Guidelines. Some of the key updates look at how NCPs: ➡️ Ensure the mechanism is safe and accessible, including having zero-tolerance policies for reprisals, guiding complainants through the process, and eliminating barriers to accepting complaints. ➡️ Use their expertise to guide mediation, ensure agreements align with the Guidelines, and provide recommendations on compliance. ➡️ Include civil society voices in NCP structures and complaint handling and promote the Guidelines, especially to those most affected by business activities. Read more about the evaluation project and updates to the indicators in our blog👇 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ggAFx3-c Hannah Greep Katharine Booth Marian G. Ingrams

📌 Earlier this week we published our new list of indicators that we'll be using the assess each National Contact Point's performance over the next few months! Since the start of this year we've embarked on a much needed update to our NCP evaluations project following the update to the OECD Guidelines last year. While the Guidelines now include stronger standards for NCPs, we want to know exactly how NCPs are actually performing. The purpose of the project is to highlight best practices while also identifying performance gaps - providing NCPs with a clear roadmap for how they can improve. It's been really interesting discussing what we really want to see NCPs doing consistently and I'm looking forward to now diving into the evaluations! If you're interested in some of the key things we included in this update, then check out my blog here ➡ https://lnkd.in/ePMkDwrS 💚 Also, while you're at it, give OECD Watch's LinkedIn a follow because over the next month we're going to be deep diving into the indicators through a series of posts that highlight what we are assessing at NCPs and why! #OECDGuidelines #NationalContactPoints #BizHumanRights #AccessToRemedy

Finally, I saw something I had been waiting for for many years in the EU! It is time for NCPs to start protecting their citizens. it is NOT only bad corporate practices. But when a global group of expatriate families falls between the cracks of corporate and societal welfare it costs health, shortens lives, creates poverty, suicides to some expats and endless stress to each corporate family on the planet. It is time to wake up to the fact that globalisation, diplomacy and corporate transnational expansion are entirely dependent on the well-being of expatriate families both NCPs and employers of all types must shape up, and make inclusive for us, who live in these mega cracks of nobody's responsibility without practical access to inclusion, justice, independence, remedy and enjoyment of our universal human rights in the EU and the rest of the world. Especially Swedish NCP has a very long list of inequalities. I am grateful for this post to Hannah Greep and a follow-up. OECD also have a work to do: OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations must include expatriate families in its policies. I am available to consult all who need help and point out exactly where and what is still missing in 2024. Please feel free to DM me: together we can build inclusive globalisation which is not today. Thank you Fernanda Hopenhaym Livio Sarandrea Hector De Castro for your support! #sustainableexpatriation #accesstohumarights #ceosforexpatspouses #expatspousesaccesstoremedy #inclusiverepatriation #inclusiveexpatriation

Despite the facts involving the non-compliance of the Italian oil giant Eni with the "OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises" being fully proven, NCP Brazil prepared and published a Final Statement that undeniably benefited the company. Furthermore, NCP Italy (the "supporting" NCP) acted in an arrogant and intimidating manner, making the NCP Brazil a mere spectator in this case, even though it was the "Host NCP". This also demonstrates a huge "conflict of interest" since the NCP Italy is part of the Italian Public Administration, the "controlling shareholder" of Eni. As if that weren't enough, Eni neglected and disregarded the recommendations of the "OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct", yet the NCP Brazil made no mention of this fact in the Final Statement. Why not? Certainly, either the NCP Brazil is the worst NCP in the world, or the NCP Brazil took some sort of "advantage" to favor the Italian oil giant to my detriment. Read more at www.enisway.com.

Centre LSD held a two-day review of the Kogi State Open Government Partnership (OGP) State Action Plan starting on June 5, 2024. This review addressed technical issues in the second version of the State Action Plan. The state technical working group, supported by Centre LSD and an OGP advisor, convened to prioritize and streamline the plan's focus areas. After deliberations, they reduced the thematic areas from nine to four, ensuring they align with OGP principles and the state's priorities. The four critical areas identified are: Fiscal transparency Access to information Service delivery Extractive sector transparency #OGPOpenNigeria

Are you registered for Washington State Chapter of NIGP 'Lunch & Learn' tomorrow, September 6, 2023 at 12PM? Presented by NIGP’s Business Council - DRS speakers Kim Abrego and Shelley Vineyard will be presenting on: "Reframing Possible: The Critical Role Procurement plays in re-building resilient communities with the use of Federal funding." In the current era of generous federal funding, many public entities find themselves in the role of ‘recipient’ and therefore set the procurement compliance standards for eligible ‘subrecipients’ who are often not familiar with or accustomed to public procurement rules and regulations. Add period of performance requirements, and a whole new layer of procurement challenges have to be managed. Get registered today-- go to: https://lnkd.in/g6UFWDHE

CIPFA is running a short free webinar on 11 March to discuss the latest consultation on short term measures designed to ease local audit pressures in England - details here #cipfanetworks https://lnkd.in/e8GdMne6

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