As a member of CIVICUS, BCSDN participated in a pilot program by CIVICUS DIGNA, which aims to identify how CSOs deliver on their diversity and inclusion (D&I) commitments. While engaging organizations from different regions of the world, the pilot program also involved international teams of consultants to ensure that the D&I audits were conducted with a universal view of human rights values and D&I compliance standards and, at the same time, also ensured a high level of understanding of the local context and with particular local sensitivity. The audit has made a difference was in identifying D&I gaps, that is, mechanisms that might be weak in case any substantial problems arise, while in the case of BCSDN has been largely assumed but did not have all commitments and issues codified in its documents. Read more here.
Source: Global Standard
