During the event, experts such as Mikel Berraondo and Xavier Urios addressed the challenges and opportunities that these regulations represent for the business sector. Sacyr actively participated in this forum, contributing to the debate on how to adapt business models to the new legal requirements, promoting more responsible practices in human, labor and environmental rights in its international operations.
This third session of Ekklesia focused on its impact on stakeholder engagement, with special emphasis on indigenous peoples.
This new framework requires companies not only to identify their strategic allies, but also to ensure effective dialogue and include them at every stage of the process.
Agreement with the Peruvian Chamber of Commerce
In March, the Sacyr Foundation signed a collaboration agreement with the Peruvian Chamber of Commerce to work in the field of human rights.
The Chamber launched a project aimed at promoting the use of Human Rights Due Diligence (social and ethical obligation to comply with current regulations) as a management tool to prevent social conflict and provide greater legal guarantees for its projects outside Europe.
The Sacyr Foundation is committed, under this agreement, to develop actions that contribute to the promotion of corporate due diligence in its projects in Peru and to participate in training workshops, forums and to carry out the monitoring of compliance with international regulations in its value chain, and especially in its SME suppliers.
The Chamber of Peru will accompany a certain group of companies, and their teams in Peru and Spain, in the process of adapting their business models to the new regulatory frameworks that are being developed in Europe with the European Directive on Due Diligence in Human Rights and its adaptation to Spanish regulations.