“This tool offers guidance to companies on engaging stakeholders on children’s rights as part of enhancing their standards and practices at both the corporate and site levels. Engaging stakeholders on children’s rights can inform the development of company policies, and human rights due diligence processes (assessing actual and potential human rights impacts, integrating and acting upon the findings, tracking responses and communicating how impacts are addressed), and the development of grievance and remediation mechanisms. Stakeholder engagement can also feed into a company’s broader sustainability strategy and long-term goals. his tool also serves as a companion piece to UNICEF’s suite of tools aimed at supporting companies in implementation of the Children’s Rights and Business Principles. Its objective is to guide companies on why, with whom and how business
should engage stakeholders – both children and child rights advocates – on issues affecting children in order to gain a better understanding of a company’s actual or potential impacts on children’s rights. A company may use this tool in different ways,
depending on the level of its impact on children’s rights, the size of the business, and the nature and context of the operation. It provides: • Guidance to help companies determine the relevance and appropriate level of engagement with stakeholders on
children’s rights (Part I) • Guidance and tools on identifying and prioritizing child rights stakeholders, including children (Part II) • Guidance for companies that plan to consult children directly, and how to do so ethically, with appropriate safeguards for children in place (Part III)”