Liberia- 1st- Guidance to business

CHAPTER ONE: BACKGROUND

1.2 Objectives of the NAPBHR

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ii. To guide businesses on the measures they should undertake to meet their responsibility to respect human rights in their operations. iii. To promote human rights due diligence by businesses as a viable measure of preventing businesses’ adverse impacts on people.

CHAPTER THREE: POLICY ACTIONS

3.3. Access to Remedy

Access to remedy within the context of the NAPBHR is aligned with Liberia National Development Plan.

The following include the policy actions that the Government of Liberia intends to undertake:

a) Duty to Protect

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viii. Train business operators to be able to develop a coherent, robust, and implementable human rights policy; and establish, maintain, and monitor their grievance mechanisms. Also, build their capacity on monitoring and reporting compliance with the UNGPs.

b) Corporate Responsibility to Respect

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iii. Capacity building is critical in ensuring corporate responsibility to respect human rights. Businesses shall build the capacity of their staff to carry out human rights due diligence and implement their human rights policy which is critical in ensuring corporate responsibility to respect human rights. The NWGBHR – a coordinating body that will be created by the government to effectively implement the NAPBHR (for 32 details, see 4.7 a) – shall be available to provide the requisite expertise where necessary.

c) Access to Remedy
Furthering post-conflict judicial reforms with the key goal of enhancing access to justice the following measures have been taken: […]
vii. Training business operators to be able to develop a coherent, robust, and implementable human rights policy; and establish, maintain, and monitor their grievance mechanisms. Also, building their capacity on monitoring and reporting compliance with the UNGPs.