This NAP is designed to reinforce and strengthen the U.S. government’s role in advancing Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) through intra-governmental coordination and policymaking, promoting high standards globally, facilitating current and future RBC efforts through enhanced collaboration, and highlighting and supporting U.S. industry leadership. The U.S. NAP presents the many ways in which the U.S. government, including in cooperation with business, labor, civil society, foreign governments, and other stakeholders, already upholds its responsibilities and fosters an environment for responsible conduct by businesses operating overseas. This NAP also highlights new initiatives that build on this foundation, and outlines how the U.S. government, in cooperation with business and other stakeholders, will strengthen efforts to promote high standards. The NAP focuses on a broad range of issues including but not limited to: human rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, labor rights, land tenure and property rights, anti-corruption, and transparency. The U.S. government recognizes that environmental issues are also integral to RBC and are affected by, and have an impact on, many of these areas. Therefore, This NAP is organized into five categories of action: (1) Leading by Example (actions aim at promoting RBC globally, to promote and enforce high standards; conducting due diligence in U.S. Development Funding and Trade Finance); 2) Collaborating with Stakeholders (enhance the value of multi-stakeholder initiatives on RBC; etc); 3) Facilitating RBC by Companies (through U.S. Government Reports, training, etc) ; 4) Recognizing Positive Performance (Recognize RBC Best Practices) ; 5) Providing Access to Remedy. Each category contains descriptions of the U.S. government’s ongoing and future commitments and initiatives to further RBC. Actions include: develop an outreach plan to broaden understanding and implementation of the OECD Guidelines among business; funding efforts that promote awareness and implementation of the UN Guiding Principles, launch the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium (GACC); develop public country-level land governance profiles, which explain the land laws, land use patterns, gender concerns, land administration, and land markets within a given country as introduction for businesses that are looking to make landbased investments in a given country; support responsible land-based investment by helping the private sector pilot the Analytical Framework for Land-Based Investments in African Agriculture, which are internationally accepted guidance that helps companies mitigate land tenure risks and make their investments more inclusive, responsible, and sustainable; combating illegal logging and wildlife trafficking;
United States of America · 2016-12-16