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Eliminating modern slavery from projects

Brookes, N; Glass, J; Castro, A; Locatelli, G; Oliomogbe, G; (2020) Eliminating modern slavery from projects. (APM Research Fund Series ). Association for Project Management: Bucks, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

Modern slavery involves the recruitment, movement, harbouring or receiving of people through any means for the purpose of exploitation. It is an extensive problem and one that causes immense human suffering. International Labour Organization figures suggest that there are 24 million victims of modern slavery or forced labour around the world at any one time, with a substantial proportion of these working on project-related activities. Modern slavery causes reputational risk to organisations from the perspective of customers and investors. In the UK, it is now subject to specific legislation. The damage and costs of legal action and compensation to victims of modern slavery can be crippling. Projects are particularly susceptible to modern slavery as they have complex flows of materials and labour that need to be constantly reinvented for each unique project context. The Association of Project Management sponsored a research investigation involving the University of Warwick, the University of Leeds and University College London to understand how project practices need to change to eliminate modern slavery. In order to answer this question, the research team undertook a Delphi exercise with experts representing project practitioners (eg. from organisations such as HS2 and Sir Robert McAlpine), NGOs (eg. The Bingham Centre and The Institute for Human Rights and Business) and professional membership organisations (eg. The International Association for Cost and Contract Management and the Royal Institute of British Architects), as well as academic researchers and individual experts. The investigation finds that the key to eliminating modern slavery is to give individuals working on projects the competence and confidence to spot modern slavery and to know what to do when this occurs. This requires support at an organisational, sectoral and legislative level. This report details this support.

Type: Report
Title: Eliminating modern slavery from projects
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://www.apm.org.uk/
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
Keywords: Modern Slavery, Projects, Corporate Social Responsibility
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett Sch of Const and Proj Mgt
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10125066
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