"CALS-SMU Coalition on NAPs: Update & Input for Preliminary Guidance on National Action Plans", Aug 2014

We refer to your call for stakeholders to provide information on substantive elements of national action plans to implement the Guiding Principles on business and human rights...[T]his is our status update of our research for your reference and inclusion in the Working Group's preliminary guidance at the third annual forum on business and human rights to be held in Geneva from 1-3 December 2014...As a collection of organisations from jurisdictions within the Global South, the Coalition seeks to provide an alternative lens through which to understand the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles ('UNGPs').Our proposed working methodology aims to engage some of the issues that have thus far been under-explored in the global conversation about business and human rights, particularly with respect to gender and imperatives affecting developing and conflict-affected economies. The Coalition is particularly concerned that such considerations, which are embedded in some of the UNGPs, should not be lost in NAPs.