At NomoGaia we work to facilitate capitalism that does no harm. We do not accept compensation from companies or from activist groups. Instead, donors fund our investigations, so we can publicly share all our research (and research tools) to ensure that our work has the broadest possible reach.
What people are saying about us:
Dr. James Harrison: "Assessments carried out by Nomogaia … contain, inter alia, rigorous consultation processes, and ex post monitoring of performance. The methodology for assessment and full reports is made fully available on the internet."
Prof. Jena Martin West Virginia University: "The NomoGaia matrix provides a comprehensive list of things to consider in business transactions with human rights implications. This makes it an incredibly thorough… tool."
Oxfam: "One tool by NomoGaia, a non-profit global human rights organization, distinguishes itself by providing significant guidance for field-based research and engagement, to incorporate perspectives of affected communities."
Green Chair Stories: "[NomoGaia is] kind-of like the unicorn of the business and human rights world, as every project it does gets published. A lot of human rights assessors (both "nonprofit" and "consultant") keep their tools, matrices, and algorithms private - only to be seen by the companies they examine. And all of them charge money for these assessments, making human rights findings the property of companies. But isn't that privacy counterintuitive to the whole idea of advocating for human rights? If it's about seeking justice, if it's about raising awareness, if it's about changing people's lives, then shouldn't we all be involved? NomoGaia's work is as much about individual lives as it is about entire nations."
PODER: in the context of observing the limits of most corporate tools for HRIA as excluding community input: "That said, the NomoGaia HRIA Toolkit may be considered an exception in this sense because, although it was designed for corporate use, it places great importance and provides detailed guidance on facilitating the participation of affected communities."
Rev. Canon Albert Ogle on human rights and World Bank loans: "Public contributions from organizations like NomoGaia, point to the unaddressed structural defects in the current practices of the [World] Bank . . . . Staffed by practitioners that have conducted stand-alone human rights impact assessment as well as integrated human rights analysis alongside ESIA, NomoGaia is keenly interested in seeing ESIA done well."
Dr. James Harrison: "I have long admired Nomogaia as the only organisation globally who have published detailed HRDD methodologies and robust reports on the human rights performance of companies including mining operations, tree and fruit plantations and pipeline projects."
NomoGaia is dedicated to making business a force for good, in the US and around the world. We envision a world where global business is a part of a system that promotes equitable growth and individual empowerment, developing the products we need in ways that favorably affect workers and communities. We generate field-based processes of "human rights due diligence" to ensure that companies' human rights policies, practices, performance and project designs respect human rights in the US and worldwide.
NomoGaia is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in 2008 to encourage and assist multinational corporations to operate with respect for human rights. Over the past 12 years, NomoGaia has developed, tested and published the most expansive and comprehensive compendium of evaluations of the human rights impacts of multinational corporations, along with detailed evaluation tools that can be employed by third parties. These tools have been employed on capital projects across numerous sectors, improving the lives of thousands of rightsholders on four continents.
The impassioned commitment to making globalization work for everyone has been the driving force of our operations. Our coalition of experts work in human rights, law, toxicology, public health, environmental economics and journalism. This team has combined experience on six continents working with multinational corporations on human rights issues. The field-based research we have conducted has become the cornerstone of practical guidance for businesses seeking to manage their human rights impacts.
Since 2014, NomoGaia has expanded its tools to address systems-level impacts. This work has focused on: the investigation of the role of the financial sector in mitigating human rights impacts, the human rights impacts of privately operated provision of public goods, and value chains (both agricultural and industrial) of key commodities. The financial sector has an important role in respecting human rights, because many business operations can be beholden to the reporting and operating principles of their lenders. Meanwhile, in the public-private partnerships that provide public services, private entities are beholden to the citizen recipients of their services as well as their government clients. This can be a challenging role to manage. We developed tools to assess the role of the financial sector as well as the private companies running government infrastructure in two concurrent projects in Myanmar (Burma) and Jordan.
In 2019 and 2020 we are focusing a large amount of energy on supply chains, with special focus on sugar, palm oil and aluminum.
Organization name
NomoGaia
other names
The Nomogaia Foundation
2008
Tax id (EIN)
33-1203791
Category
Public & Societal Benefit
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
1616 17th St Suite 571Headquarters
1616 17th St. Suite 271Mailing
1616 17th St. Suite 271Denver County, CO, US