The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) aims to establish a common understanding of the ways in which businesses can contribute through their activities to the realization of decent work and the role different actors can play in promoting and enabling human rights due diligence as part of their responsible and sustainable business practices.

Human rights due diligence (HRDD) allows enterprises to uphold their responsibility to respect human rights as outlined in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration) and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct. It consists of a process by which companies can identify, prevent, and mitigate their actual and potential adverse impacts on human rights and account for how they address such impacts.

The MOOC “Human Rights Due Diligence and Decent Work” will highlight the principles of international labour standards as they relate to company operations and HRDD and recent voluntary and mandatory developments in HRDD relevant for the decent work agenda. It will showcase the role of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations to promoting HRDD that is effective and conducive to decent work. It will also include a session on addressing decent work issues across economic sectors through HRDD, highlighting concrete examples, experiences and how best practices can be enhanced and replicated.

The MOOC targets a broad group of professionals from the public and private sectors (business, government, social partners and other stakeholders). In particular, Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) and HRDD practitioners, government officials working at the interface of trade, investment, supply chains and human rights issues, employers' and workers' organisations, civil society and academia, and other stakeholders.

By the end of this MOOC, participants will:

• Strengthen their knowledge on international labour standards and the labour dimension of HRDD for more effective HRDD processes;
• Learn about trends, challenges and opportunities in human rights due diligence;
• Learn about specific guidance and good practices in human rights due diligence across various economic sectors;
• Explore practical approaches to help small and medium enterprise (SMEs) with their RBC and human rights due diligence practices.

The training will be offered in English and will be delivered through eCampus, the online training platform of the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO).

It will include the following elements:

• 6 webinars of 2 hours each
• a discussion forum for networking and exchange of experiences
• 8 self-guided thematic learning modules
• a certificate of participation for participants who successfully complete the course

The course will have a duration of 2 weeks. The estimated workload for this MOOC is 9 hours (maximum) per week and participants can complete the proposed activities at their own pace.

Participation in the course is free of charge. Participants will receive a Certificate of Participation from the ITCILO upon completion of the six compulsory self-guided modules as well as one of the two optional modules and after passing a final test.

Contact

For more information, please contact us via e-mail mne-gsc@itcilo.org