Responsible Business

A4ID encourages and assists the international legal sector to understand the issues around business and human rights from an international development perspective. The organisation promotes the UN’s Guiding Principles and encourages legal professionals to use international legal instruments to assist their clients in avoiding involvement in human rights violations.

A4ID shows its commitment to Responsible Business by:

• Conducting Responsible Business Workshops for law firms across the world
• Providing training on Responsible Business through the annual Law and Development Training Programme
• Conducting Responsible Business training courses in Kenya, India and elsewhere, strengthened by ongoing peer-peer knowledge-sharing relationship networks
• Providing free legal advice to international development organisations, through our partner law firms, with regards to all matters in relation to the UNGPs as well as Human Rights more broadly
• Having joined the UN Global Compact and committing to their 10 Principles.

Programmes and Partnerships

East Africa Law Society (EALS)

A4ID has collaborated with EALS to deliver the largest Responsible Business Capacity-Building programme to commercial lawyers in the region. Through EALS, A4ID has worked with regional law societies in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. The organisation is currently working with EALS to build a strong culture of pro bono in the region and to promote the role of legal professionals in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR)

A4ID has partnered with DIHR to implement a Business and Human Rights e-Learning Project, with an aim to train commercial lawyers and in-house counsel in Kenya in the area of Responsible Business.