You are: Retailer or Brand (End-buyer)
Status: Getting started with HRDD

While you are often multiple steps removed from the initial point of harvest, your commitments and actions significantly impact the whole supply chain. Because you are also consumer-facing, you face the most significant reputational risk when human rights violations occur anywhere within your supply chain. You have a leadership and norm-setting role that enables and encourages responsible practices from sourcing through to the marketplace. 

Setting expectations and goals is an essential component of human rights due diligence (HRDD). Start by identifying senior level staff members who will be responsible for developing and implementing your HRDD program. 

The Embed step in the Roadmap is a good place to start developing your program. It includes a background on human rights in seafood, information on how to develop HRDD goals and timelines, and guidance on implementing human rights programs with your headquarters staff. The Embed step also includes direct advice and guidance to begin developing your program, such as:

• Review and update decision-making and business practices that support your HRDD commitments and commit to due diligence as an ongoing process.
• Use international guidance, frameworks, and treaties to guide your policies and procedures. 
• Involve leadership in the development of policies and commitments. 
• Develop procedures for implementing your HRDD policies that include every team that touches supply chain operations.