Human rights due diligence is now part of how responsible companies operate – shaping procurement and supply chain, risk management and internal audit, legal and compliance, and human resources functions. Enact’s Practitioners Workshop Series helps professionals across corporate functions move from awareness to action, translating expectations into practical steps that strengthen business integrity and accountability.
Drawing on our extensive experience working with companies within responsible business conduct for 20 years, we recognise the practical challenges of integrating human rights due diligence into existing systems and processes. This training is designed to cut through complexity, providing clarity, concrete guidance to help you embed human rights due diligence into your daily responsibilities, strengthening your role as a trusted professional. The course enables professionals across functions to speak a common language and develop ways of working together to address human rights risks in a structured and practical way.
For each module we build the content around requirements that are relevant to the particular function, company good practice and the knowledge required by the staff in each function.
Specialisation areas:
- Procurement & Supply chain
- Risk & Internal Audit
- Legal & Compliance
- Human Resources
Format: Online on Zoom
Duration: 3 intensive sessions per module
Period: March–June 2026
Fee: €3000 excl. VAT. 3000 EUR (excluding VAT). Early bird discount: Register by 23 November to receive a reduced rate of 2000 EUR (excluding VAT). Network members are eligible for a 50% discount per seat. Discounts are available for companies registering participants across multiple courses. To learn more please contact katerina.hnitidou@enact.fi
Module: Procurement & Supply Chain
Audience: Professionals working within procurement, with supplier selection or supplier management
Dates: 5 Mar, 26 Mar, 20 April 2026 | 09:30–12:30 CET
About this module:
This course is designed for sourcing professionals working within procurement who want clear, hands-on guidance on how to integrate sustainability and human rights into purchasing decisions and supply chain management, and implications for supplier selection and follow up.
We focus on how new regulations shape procurement practices, from setting sustainability criteria in tenders to building fair contracts and managing suppliers in both every day and high-risk situations. Case examples and practical tools provide concrete steps to integrate human rights into procurement decisions with confidence. We look at how to incorporate compliance requirements into proactive supplier strategies and responsible sourcing.
By the end of the course, you will be equipped to strengthen responsible purchasing into your procurement, enhance supplier relationships, manage risks effectively, and meet growing expectations from regulators, customers, and your company.
Agenda
01. Clarifying Expectations
Understand what human rights due diligence means for procurement
• International and regional regulatory and voluntary frameworks, heightened DD
• Turning compliance requirements into practice and action
• Customer and buyer expectations
02. Building Due Diligence into Purchasing Decisions
How to apply human rights in supplier selection and contracting
• Selection process, sustainability criteria in tenders, contracting, and supplier onboarding
• Fair allocation of obligations between buyer and suppliers
• Supplier codes of conduct, purchasing practices and pricing
03. Working with Suppliers the Right Way
Supplier relationships; from dialogue to leaving. High-risk contexts.
• Supplier mapping & impact screening
• Partnering approach vs. policing
• Monitoring, SAQs and audits: role and limits
• Using commercial leverage responsibly
• Last resort measures: suspension or termination, exit strategies
The course content and session structure may be adjusted prior to the start date to reflect latest developments and best practice insights.
Seats are limited to ensure dialogue and tailored learning. Find full details and register for this module in our Calendar.
Module: Risk & Internal Audit
Audience: In-house professionals within Risk and Inernal Audit
Dates: 18 Mar, 15 April, 6 May 2026 | 13:00–16:00 CET
About this module:
This course is designed for risk professionals and internal auditors who want to understand how human rights due diligence connects across impact management, enterprise risk management and reviewed by internal audit. We go through the risk ecosystem, from identification through assessment and finding human rights compatible solutions and monitoring the outcomes. It explains how human rights risks differ from traditional company risks and how due diligence can be embedded in risk assessments, controls, monitoring, audit strategies and reporting. Through practical examples and peer discussions, participants will gain the tools to strengthen oversight, enhance reporting, and provide independent assurance that governance, risk management and internal controls effectively address human rights risks and meet evolving regulatory and stakeholder expectations.
Agenda
01 Regulations that Matter for Risk and Audit
How human rights due diligence reshapes risk management and internal audit responsibilities.
• The shifting global landscape of human rights law and regulation. International regulatory and voluntary frameworks
• Risk- and impact-based approach . Heightened due diligence
• Auditing a risk-based approach to sustainability and role under CSDDD
02 Integrating Human Rights into Risk and Audit Frameworks
How to embed human rights due diligence in enterprise risk management and internal audit processes.
• Defining, evaluating, grading and prioritising human rights risks
• Defining “risk appetite” for human rights risks
• Aligning HRDD with ERM frameworks and audit planning.
• Integration with ISO standards other risk standards
• Reporting to the Audit Committee at the Board
• Interaction with other internal controls
03 Monitoring, Assurance and Continuous Improvement
Apply human rights due diligence in practice through monitoring and audit activities.
• Scoping and risk-based planning of audits related to human rights risks, targets and indicators
• Audit procedures, testing processes and documenting findings
• Setting meaningful KPIs, targets and triggers for stand-alone or reassessment of new markets, M&A, restructuring
• Roles of audits, internal assurance and external experts in follow-up and continuous improvement
The course content and session structure may be adjusted prior to the start date to reflect latest developments and best practice insights. .
Seats are limited to ensure dialogue and tailored learning. Find full details and register for this module in our Calendar.
Module: Legal & Compliance
Audience: Legal advisors, in-house counsels, other legal and compliance professionals working in-house
Dates: 16 Apr, 7 May, 28 May 2026 | 12:00–15:00 CEST
About this module:
This specialised course is designed for compliance and in-house legal professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of human rights due diligence, strengthen their role in managing human rights risks and ensuring alignment with emerging and growing legal and stakeholder expectations. With a focus on the evolving legal landscape and practical application, the course explores the critical role of legal counsel and compliance in shaping, supporting and integrating effective due diligence strategies into compliance processes, corporate governance and oversight frameworks. Through practical case studies and tools, and discussion of common challenges, participants will gain the insights needed to confidently advise across a range of legal and operational contexts, anticipate regulatory developments, strengthen internal systems and enhance their position and role in navigating today’s complex sustainability and human rights landscape.
Agenda
01 Evolving Expectations
About the shifting legal and regulatory landscape driving corporate human rights due diligence
• The shifting global landscape of human rights law and regulation.
• International regulatory and voluntary frameworks.
• When norms differ; national and international legal requirements. Setting expectations beyond domestic requirements and minimums.
• A risk and human-rights based approach.
• Heightened due diligence.
02 Building the Sustainability & Human Rights Foundation
How to embed due diligence into corporate structures, transactions and daily work
• Impact identification and management
• Group structures & policies, codes: do’s and don’ts
• JV, M&A
• Contracts: draft clauses, levers and safeguards
• Documentation, disclosure & legal exposure
03 Handling high-risk situations. Remedy, Complaints and DD as a Legal Defence
How to integrate human rights into company governance and other business functions. What to do when risks escalate.
• Crisis and escalation. Proactive risk management strategy.
• Complaints, remedy & conflict resolution. Due diligence aligned reporting channels (hotlines, whistleblowing, grievance).
• Complicity and responsible defence strategies.
• A human rights approach to remedy and practical steps to ensure it works.
The course content and session structure may be adjusted prior to the start date to reflect latest developments and best practice insights.
Seats are limited to ensure dialogue and tailored learning. Find full details and register for this module in our Calendar.
Module: Human Resources
Audience: Professionals working within Human Resources
Dates: 29 Apr, 20 May, 3 Jun 2026 | 09:30–12:30 CEST
About this module:
This course is designed for human resource (HR) professionals who want clear, practical guidance on what human rights due diligence means for people management and everyday HR practices. The training explains how emerging human rights due diligence regulations affect human resources functions and provides practical guidance on identifying, preventing and addressing human rights risks within workforce management. Through concrete examples and tools, participants will learn how to integrate due diligence into recruitment, workplace policies, employee engagement and organisational change processes.
Agenda
01. Regulations that Matter for People Management
What human rights due diligence means for Human Resources and workforce practices
• Changing expectations through the evolving global landscape of human rights due diligence regulation and focus on implications for human resource functions and staff
• Identifying risky practices with own workforce that isn’t covered by law
• DD in recruitment, employee relations, compensation packages, training and professional development, code follow up, beyond compliance, performance management and workforce planning
02. Policies into Practice
Working with labour rights aligned policies and standards – and implementing them across the business
• Integrating fundamental labour rights and due diligence into human resource policies
• Work hours, living wages, health and safety, decent working conditions and more – across multiple jurisdictions
• Human rights impacts in recruitment and during employment
03. From Insight to Action
Good practice from other companies
• How others have done – minimal, compliance based or ambitious approach
• Necessary skills in-house
• A human rights-based approach to organisational change, layoffs and reorganisation
• Low hanging fruits and quick wins on how to use human resource instruments for due diligence purposes (e.g. employee surveys, complaints processes, escalation, incidents, union collaboration)
The course content and session structure may be adjusted prior to the start date to reflect latest developments and best practice insights.
Seats are limited to ensure dialogue and tailored learning. Find full details and register for this module in our Calendar.
The Practitioners Workshop Series is part of Enact’s long-term commitment to supporting companies in translating human rights due diligence from concept to practice.
Visit our Calendar to explore all modules, dates, and registration options.
For any questions, please contact: info@enact.se
