Companies

What We Offer

The Bridge Research Service

Local Human Rights Insights for Better Business Decisions

Companies often have access to extensive data, audits, assessments, and reporting systems. What they lack is reliable insights into how local stakeholders experience business activities on the ground.

The Bridge is a tailored confidential research service that helps companies access localized perspectives that strengthen stakeholder engagement, human rights due diligence, and risk management.

As an independent academic institution, the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights (GCBHR) provides a secure and confidential channel that connects multinational businesses with trusted, site-specific insights from local human rights defenders—helping identify issues before they become community conflict, project delays, operational disruption, reputational concerns, or legal liabilities.

Why Companies Use The Bridge

• ✅ Understand local realities beyond desktop research
• ✅ Identify risks before they escalate
• ✅ Strengthen stakeholder engagement
• ✅ Support more informed business decisions
• ✅ Complement existing due diligence processes
• ✅ Access trusted local expertise through a secure and confidential process

What Companies Receive

• ✅ Local context analysis
• ✅ Stakeholder perspectives
• ✅ Human rights risk insights
• ✅ Early-warning signals
• ✅ Practical recommendations
• ✅ Strategic briefing materials

Request a Conversation

Interested in exploring whether The Bridge could support a specific project, supply chain, geography, stakeholder group, or business challenge?

Talk With Our Team

• Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, Director, Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights
• Sarah Creedon, Research Associate, The Bridge: Senior Program Director Sarah.Creedon@unige.ch
• Ginous ‘Gigi’ Alford, Research Associate, The Bridge: Program Coordinator Gigi.Alford@unige.ch

Other Ways to Engage with the GCBHR

Business & Human Rights (BHR) Clinics

Collaborate with the GCBHR and a team of high-potential master students over a few months to address a human rights challenge your company currently faces. The clinic will yield a tailored, ready-to-apply deliverable for your company, building on one-on-one sessions, workshops and state-of-the-art academic knowledge.

Explore the BHR Clinic.

Corporate Training on Business and Human Rights

Request an executive workshop, case-based training, or a co-designed tool to help your team build internal capacity and foster a culture of accountability and solution-orientation. Our training is function and issue-specific, including:

• Board training
• Scenario based skill building
• Industry Specific (i.e. commodity, trading)
• Function Specific (i.e. procurement and security professionals)
• Topic specific (i.e. ASM, child labor, migrant labor)
• Methodologies to assess socio-economic impacts.

Thought Leadership and Advancing Practice

Invite GCBHR experts to contribute to your events, internal meetings, and decision-making processes. We offer keynote speeches, panel participation, moderated discussions, and input to strategy sessions.
We also provide expert review of human rights strategy documents, operational guidance, and governance structures.