Our work helps connect international standards, emerging policy approaches, and civil society expertise to advance stronger expectations for responsible business conduct. We work collaboratively across the business and human rights field to:
We help civil society organisations understand and use the OECD Guidelines when engaging in discussions about corporate accountability at national, regional, and multilateral levels.
We provide research, analysis, and expertise on issues such as corporate human rights and environmental due diligence, helping civil society bring evidence and international standards into policy debates.
We engage with the OECD and governments, and other relevant standard-setting bodies to promote the OECD Guidelines and related instruments as useful reference points for developing and strengthening accountability for business-related harm. We help stakeholders identify good practices and opportunities to strengthen responsible business conduct expectations.
OECD Watch is also encouraging other standard-setting bodies like the ISSD and multilateral bodies like development banks to drive towards coherence in their policies guiding corporate conduct.
Effective corporate accountability requires more than voluntary commitments.
We work to build understanding of how international standards can inform stronger accountability frameworks, while supporting civil society to engage constructively in discussions about how companies should prevent, address, and account for their impacts on people and the planet.
The OECD Guidelines are increasingly underpinning national and regional law and policy regulating business conduct.
Read OECD Watch’s blog on using the Recommendation to encourage governmental progress in advancing RBC through law as well as policy on related topics like procurement, export credits, or development finance.
Our report marking 50 years of the OECD Guidelines showcases the contributions, limitations, and what is needed next for the Guidelines. Our key finding is that the opportunity and challenge for the future of the Guidelines is to translate the voluntary framework into binding law to advance their real-world impact.
Last week, OECD Watch joined governments, businesses, trade unions and civil society from around the world in Paris for the OECD’s Responsible Business Conduct Week, marking the 50th anniversary of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational…
OECD Watch has joined over 100 human rights and environmental organisations – including Indigenous Peoples’ and Afro-descendant peoples’ representative organisations – from more than 55 countries in sending an Open Letter to members of the…
OECD Watch has sent a joint letter to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) calling for its Sustainability Framework Review to align with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct – raising the…
