DIHR Responsible Business & Sustainable Oceans & Just Transition2024-2027

About this project

Sida has provided support to the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) for its work on business and human rights (HR) since 2018, organised under two global programmes: Responsible Business (RB-programme) and Sustainable Oceans (Oceans programme). From 2022-2023 the RB programme received additional funding from Sweden's strategy for development cooperation in Kenya. This funding complemented the global funding and enabled DIHR to deepen its work in Kenya. Separately from these programmes, DIHR also conducted an eight-month pilot project with support from Sweden's strategy for regional cooperation in Africa, called 'Supporting a Just Transition Through Responsible Business Conduct in Africa'. With this contribution Sida will continue its support to these initiatives. The global Responsible Business programme builds on the successes and lessons from the previous phase, as well as recommendations from an external evaluation conducted in 2023. The program aims to support national implementation of responsible business frameworks as well as support stronger, more coherent policy development through international and regional exchanges. The global programme includes a specific component for Kenya where DIHR will work in a more comprehensive and in-depth way than in other countries. Here, DIHR will continue its cooperation with Kenyan institutions and actors in order to accelerate implementation of Kenya's National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights (NAP). The Sustainable…

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Sweden · Government

Countries

Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Congo - Kinshasa, Colombia, Honduras

Sectors

Responsible business conductFishing policy and administrative managementEnvironmental policy and administrative managementII.5. Business and other servicesIII.1.c. FishingIV.1. General Environment Protection

Funded by

Sweden

Passes funds through

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

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