Bonsucro and Responsible Jewellery Council engaged Business & Human Rights consultancy twentyfifty Ltd to conduct a research project on learning and good practice from the experience of ISEAL Community Members in implementing Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). This briefing note is intended to give a summary of the key findings from this. The objective is to support ISEAL Community Members and other multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) and voluntary sustainability standards’ (VSS) in strengthening their implementation of the UNGPs, which is increasingly a requirement of several international frameworks and national legislations.

The findings and recommendations presented in this publication are a summary based on the results of desk-based research and interviews carried out by twentyfifty Ltd between January and June 2022 with representatives of ISEAL and eight ISEAL Community Members.