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:
Russian judicial and law enforcement practice on human rights,
Corporate documents (more than 50),
47 questions from sociological survey of 2.5 Yaraktinskoye and Markovskoye O&G fields workers;
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.