Applications are now open for the 2025 UN Global Compact Business & Human Rights Accelerator Program. The Business & Human Rights Accelerator is a six-month programme activating companies participating in the UN Global Compact across industries and regions. The objective is to help businesses swiftly move from commitment to action on human rights and labour rights through establishing an ongoing human rights due diligence process.
Requirements
To take part in the Business & Human Rights Accelerator, companies are required to be participants of the UN Global Compact or willing to join. Your company should also be:
Commit to completing the programme and embedding the learnings across the company strategy and operations
Currently engaged with a Global Compact Country Network in your region or willing to join
Willing to identify its human rights risks and impacts and scope a core area of your value chain for further focus
Committed to developing an Action Plan to help address the human rights risks identified and prioritized
Able to appoint two working-level representatives to attend sessions and participate in Accelerator activities and an additional executive-level representative to follow programme developments, provide support and participate in high-level events
Benefits
An understanding of where your company is on their human rights journey
An assessment of actual and potential adverse human rights impacts and the ability to prioritize action
The knowledge about steps to take to mitigate your human rights impacts, including grievance mechanisms and remedy
Ways to effectively engage stakeholders on operational impacts on people
An action plan to advance human rights in your company and beyond
A network of peers, UN partners and experts to support your human rights journey and work collectively to tackle persistent barriers to human rights due diligence.
A certificate demonstrating completion of programme
Application Timeline,
Application Opens: 10 September 2025
Application Dealine: 19 December 2025
Accelerator Begins: February 2026(Please check exact dates with your Global Compact Country Network)
Method of Application
For More Information,
Visit the Official Webpage
Application Deadline: 19 December 2025.