LandScale Documentation
  • Profile setup & landscape initiative maturity
  • Assessment guidelines
  • About
  • Get started
    • Get started with LandScale assessments
    • Introduction to the LandScale system
      • LandScale assessment framework
  • Step A (Overview)
    • Set up landscape initiative
    • Define the landscape boundary
      • Boundary limitations and adjacency analysis
    • Provide landscape overview
    • Register assessment team members
    • Develop stakeholder engagement plan
    • Set up documentation storage system
    • Review and submit for validation
  • Step B (Indicator and data selection)
    • Design the assessment scope
    • Select indicators
    • Select metrics
    • Select data resources
      • Analyze data limitations
      • Manage data gaps
    • Review and submit for validation
  • Step C (Results)
    • Process data and assess metrics
    • Visualize and interpret results
    • Set targets and milestones (optional)
    • Identify and register local reviewers
    • Review and submit for first review
      • Address findings from the first review
    • Review and submit for the local review
      • Address feedback from the local review
    • Review and submit for final validation
    • Complete the assessment
  • Additional resources
    • Human rights assessment guidelines
    • Archived resources
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Human rights assessment guidelines

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Human rights violations often extend beyond individual projects, plantations, and concession boundaries. Their causes and consequences relate to complex interactions involving multiple levels of government, diverse sectors, and a wide array of stakeholders. Therefore, assessing human rights at the landscape scale is a useful contribution to managing sustainability across larger geographic and governance areas.

Historically, human rights assessments have either been broad risk evaluations at the national level or in-depth, context-specific studies at the project, plantation, supply chain, or community level. These approaches, while valuable, often lack scalability and replicability. LandScale’s landscape-level human rights assessment is a pioneering step towards bridging this gap. However, it is not exhaustive and should not replace the obligations of companies, governments, and other stakeholders to undertake smaller-scale human rights assessments. Instead, it offers a complementary perspective, helping to identify systemic human rights issues, their root causes, and the enabling conditions required to address them effectively.

Download our Human Rights Assessment Guidelines below:

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