Part B: Due Diligence Implementation

Policy and Governance: This section provides guidance for investors for incorporating a public policy commitment on Indigenous rights and for incorporating Indigenous rights into operational policies, procedures, and management systems. This should include a public policy commitment, which is embedded through operational policies and procedures required to embed the commitment throughout the organization.
Identify and Assess Actual or Potential Impacts: This section provides guidance for investors on identifying and assessing actual or potential impacts on Indigenous peoples at both the portfolio and individual investment level, drawing on the Investor Toolkit on Human Rights. This includes the assessment of investee companies’ human rights due diligence processes, and the assessment of investee companies’ human rights outcomes, throughout the investment cycle.
Address Actual or Potential Impacts: This section provides guidance for investors on using their leverage to prevent/mitigate and enable remedy for actual or potential adverse impacts on Indigenous peoples. As a general principle, the starting point for prioritizing actions and using leverage should be to identify the perspectives of the potentially impacted Indigenous communities.
Conclusion: While this Toolkit seeks to provide investors with tools to develop and implement their own due diligence, investors should take necessary steps to adapt the recommendations to their specific context and investment universe and seek to understand and prioritize the perspective of Indigenous communities potentially affected by their investments.

Respecting Indigenous Rights

Part B: Due Diligence Implementation

Respecting Indigenous Rights