About the toolkit
This online toolkit for organisations who are working in waste and recycling value chains enables simpler collection and analysis of key data. Enhances participatory approaches will support more effective human rights impact and risk assessment management.
There are approximately 40 million waste pickers across the world. These waste pickers are vulnerable to a broad range of severe human rights impacts whilst carrying out vital environmental and public health work.
This four phase company toolkit was prepared by First Mile for, and in collaboration with, Tearfund and funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad).
We are working with The Circulate Initiative to continually align the toolkit with the Harmonised Responsible Sourcing Framework.
The toolkit offers guidance and templates to support businesses in implementing the Fair Circularity Principles by:
- mapping their value chains
- assessing and analysing human rights risks and their root causes
- meaningfully engaging with waste pickers to ensure human rights impacts are prevented, mitigated and remedied
- providing a monitoring and evaluation framework
- applying a gender lens throughout the process
The NGO and social enterprise toolkit offers similar guidance and templates, designed with the needs of organisations working within waste and recycling value chains in mind.
Data visualisation dashboards are available to support data analysis and action planning to mitigate risks and impacts to waste pickers. The online toolkit is designed to be used in conjunction with the manual downloadable documents as key preparation and guidance materials.
