2026 UN Global Compact Business & Human Rights Accelerator Program (Deadline: 19 December, 2025)
Applications are now open for the 2025 UN Global Compact Business & Human Rights Accelerator Program.The Business & Human Rights Accelerator is a six-month program 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 labor 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 program 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 program 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 program
Application Timeline:
- Application Opens: September 10, 2025
- Dealine app: December 19, 2025
- Accelerator Begins: February 2026
(Please check exact dates with your Global Compact Country Network)
Application Deadline: December 19, 2025
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