Peru – OECD NCP

By Daniel Morris | 23. June 2022

CHAPTER I : PROCESS OF ELABORATING THE FIRST NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

In 2009, as part of its adherence to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the government established a National Contact Point (NCP) for RBCs, located in Peru’s Private Investment Promotion Agency (Proinversión). Under the OECD Guidelines, the Peruvian NCP is tasked with promoting the Guidelines and related Due Diligence Guidance and handling cases related to potential non-compliance with the Guidelines by a multinational enterprise, through a non-judicial process of mediation and conciliation between the company and the affected parties referred to as “specific instances” (OECD, 2020b, p. 22). – page 12

Table 8: NAP strategic guidelines and objectives, and alignment with the axes of the Peru Vision 2050

Strategic guideline No. 1: Promotion and dissemination of a culture of respect for human rights in the business environment in accordance with the framework of international standards of the guiding principles and other international instruments.

Objective No. 1: Officials, managers, and public servants incorporate the guiding principles and other related international instruments in public management, specifically in the service they provide.

Action: Create and implement a permanent training program on GP-RBC and other international standards, from the Justice and Human Rights sector, aimed at public officials, managers, and civil servants at all hierarchical levels and in all subnational and national state sectors.

Background: In order to ensure ongoing state training and awareness-raising for public officials, managers, and civil servants at all hierarchical levels and in all subnational and national state sectors, the MINJUSDH will create and implement a training program on GP-RBC and other international standards. This program will address, in coordination with the respective competent entities – especially the National Contact Point, at the national, subnational, and other branches of government and autonomous constitutional bodies – the particular needs of the different sectors of the Executive, taking into account, to the extent necessary, the context of the health emergency caused by Covid-19.

Indicator: Creation and implementation of the program, and annual progress report. – page 56

Strategic guideline No. 2: Design of public protection policies to prevent human rights violations in the business environment.

Objective No. 1: Promote regulatory actions to prevent human rights violations in the corporate sphere

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Action: Promote capacity building on GP-RBC between the Ombudsman’s Office, the National Contact Point, and other national agencies.

Background: In order to strengthen the coherence of public policies in the area of GP-RBC, it is important to generate the articulation of different public entities. In this sense, the work of the National Contact Point would be strengthened through synergies with the Ombudsman’s Office and other additional agencies, which could also strengthen the fulfillment of its functions.

Indicator: Annual reports. – page 68