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TABLE 1: THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN NAP PROCESSES CHECKLIST 1. Recognition • Take every opportunity, publically and unequivocally, to highlight the important and legitmate role of human rights defenders and the indispensible nature of their input in ensuring a practical and effective NAP. 2. Protection • At the outset of the NAP development process, make commitments and create speci8ic mechanisms to prevent reprisals and guarantee protection for defenders who contribute to the process. 3. Resources • Allocate adequate resources to enable the consultation of a broad range of human rights defenders both at home and abroad, and across diverse geographic areas. 4. Stakeholder Mapping • Seek out human rights defenders and affected communities to participate in the development of the NAP, in both the home and host States, as part of a wider stakeholder mapping. 5. Governance • Ensure that government bodies with a speci8ic remit regarding human rights defenders protection or civil society space are actively involved in the NAP process. 6. Participation • Facilitate the broad and sustained participation of human rights defenders, including isolated or particularly at-­‐risk defenders, in the NAP consultation, design, implementation, evaluation, and updating processes. Consultations should take place across the country and abroad, where State-­‐based businesses and investments operate. 7. National Baseline Assessment (NBA) • Incorporate and address human rights defenders' rights and security in the NBA by fully involving defenders in its development and completion, and integrate the results of the Human Rights Defenders' Rights NBA Template into the overall NBA process. 8. Scope • Base NAP development on the UN Guiding Principles and in line with the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. The protection of the rights of human rights defenders should re8lect freedoms guaranteed under international law, supplemented by domestic law where it is deemed to surpass international standards. 9. Content • Include concrete policies and measures to recognise, protect, and support human rights defenders and ensure that the State and business contribute to a safe and enabling environment for their work, both at home and abroad. Acknowledge the risks defenders face as a result of their work, paying particular attention to the speci8ic protection needs of certain groups of defenders, and include preventative measures which tackle the root causes of risk and address the issue of impunity and accountability. 10. Priorities • Consider and utilise input by human rights defenders to identify areas for prioritisation both in the NAP itself and in its implementation. 11. Transparency • Ensure that all human rights defenders consulted understand how their input was taken into account by periodically publishing drafts of the NAP, summary reports on its implementation, and information regarding the NBA, the NAP, and any relevant consultations in an accessible, easy-­‐to-­‐understand format. 12. Balance • Articluate a clear expectation of how business can meet its duties to respect, consult and support human rights defenders and their work, complementing the primary responsiblity of the State in that regard. The NAP should foresee appropriate monitoring mechanisms and sanctions to enforce this duty. 13. Follow-­‐up • Fully consult human rights defenders and affected communities both at home and abroad in the implementation, review and further re8inement of the NAP. Incorporate these speci8ic follow-­‐up mechanisms into the NAP. 12