SSN's work with due diligence assessments (the Transparency Act) is based on the principles and guidance in the UN's guiding principles on business and human rights (UNGP, 2011) and the OECD's model for due diligence guidance for responsible business conduct (OECD, 2018).

Various sources are used in SSN's establishment of an overall picture of the risk of violations of human and employee rights.

The Student Welfare Organisation of Southeast Norway uses the following sources in the initial phase:

• The Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management's (DFØ) guidance on public procurement and human rights (PPHR): High Risk List

• The CSR Risk Check tool - MVO, the Netherlands: Home | CSR Risk Check

In further mapping and prioritization prioritized in the work with due diligence assessments, the Student Welfare Organisation of Southeast Norway uses:

• Employee rights: ITUC_GlobalRightsIndex_2021_EN-final.pdf (mutualcdn.com)

• Corruption: CPI score 2021
  

• Product list child labor and forced labor: List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor | U.S. Department of Labor (dol.gov)
  

• Equality: Global Gender Gap Report 2021 | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)
  

• Country list several risk factors: BSCI score 2021
  

• Sanctions export (can be used when assessing import / procurement):

  • Sanctions and restrictive measures - regjeringen.no

  • EU Sanctions Map

• Environment: The 2022 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)
  

The initial mapping work forms the basis for further prioritization of mapping and measures where The Student Welfare Organisation of Southeast Norway has the most negative impact. Prioritizing the most negative impact means directing efforts towards the risk of the most severe risks and violations of human rights, corruption and the environment. Prioritizing risk does not mean that some rights are more important than others or that nothing is done about other things. This means that something is so severe that it is prioritized first.

The prioritization is assessed on the basis of three factors / factors:

• Scale = Severity for the people affected

• Scope = Number of people affected

• Remediability = Possibility to repair - (eg if someone loses a hand or dies - it is not possible to retur to the state prior to the damage/injury).

The overall Risk Assessment for the Student Welfare Organisation of Southeast Norway is based on the organisation's business areas:

• Café and canteen services

• Bookstores

• Sports centres

• Kindergarten

• Real estate management and real estate development

• Health

• Administration

The results of the overall mapping show so far that The Student Welfare Organisation of Southeast Norway buys products within product categories that are considered high-risk categories.

Major high-risk categories identified:

• Purchase of building and construction materials

• Purchase of electronics and ICT

• Purchase of food and beverages

• Purchase of office supplies

• Purchase of toys and sports equipment

• Purchase of textiles, work clothes and footwear

• Purchase of cars and other vehicles

In general, we know that longer and more complicated supply chains increase the risk of human rights violations or indecent working conditions. A significant difference in the survey is therefore based on Norwegian-produced goods and imported goods, where imports constitute a significantly higher risk in the survey. This will be important for further mapping and prioritization of risk in SSN.