Projects

WORKER'S HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Client: Irkutsk Oil Company (INK)

Location: Russia

Project: Human Rights Impact Assessment for workers employed at the Yaraktinskoye and Markovskoye O&G fields.

Purpose: An independent assessment of the human rights impacts in the framework of labor relations and working conditions in the INK group of companies and its’ contractors

Approach:

Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) included the following tasks:

  • Analysis of corporate non-financial reports and documents regulating human rights issues;

  • Analysis of employees’ feedback received through various communication channels, with regard to remuneration, working conditions, safety, and other topics related to human rights;

  • Preliminary assessment of the socio-economic baseline in Ust-Kut and Ust-Kutsky district based on data from open sources;

  • Scoping study to identify relevant and priority areas to inform the field survey and full-scale impact assessment;

  • Field survey: in-depth interviews with workers and external stakeholders;

  • Assessment of the identified impacts in accordance with the UNGP and the Danish Institute for Human Rights approach.

Result:

  • Desktop review:

  1. Russian judicial and law enforcement practice on human rights,
  2. Corporate documents (more than 50),
  3. 47 questions from sociological survey of 2.5 Yaraktinskoye and Markovskoye O&G fields workers;
  4. More than 100 in-depth interviews with employees of INK and it’s contractors, 5 interviews with representatives of local governments and relevant organizations;

  • Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) report including Action Plan has been developed taking into account best practices, including Human Rights Due Diligence.
9.Social performance and human rights