Promoting and enabling responsible business conduct through development co‑operation efforts

This report presents findings from a stocktaking exercise conducted by the OECD Secretariat on how objectives related to promoting and enabling responsible business conduct (RBC) are integrated in strategies, programmatic policies, operational guidelines, and procurement practices of bilateral donor agencies and development financial institutions (DFI). The exercise focused on identifying the current state of play, with an emphasis on featuring initiatives and safeguards that promote, incentivise, support, exemplify or monitor RBC by the private sector. This work is part of ongoing efforts by the OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct to promote policy coherence on RBC and support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.