Question: How does the company assess the risks of modern slavery and trafficking in their supply chain?
Answer:
Risk-based questionnaires,
Conducting desk research including information from third parties/NGO's
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Walk Free
MSA risk assessment
2020
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updated about 2 years ago by Ish Panwar

The company conducts a diligence process

Ish Panwar.....2022-04-11 20:22:48 UTC

All our suppliers are required to go through a Third Party Assessment

before being onboarded. There is a detailed process in place to

ensure that suppliers are assessed prior to being engaged, and

periodically reassessed thereafter, depending on the associated risk

of the supplier. During the assessment, our specialized teams of

subject matter experts review the supplier’s risk profile and the

effectiveness of any control measures already in place for each

relevant risk area, including environmental, health and safety and

human rights, before making recommendations to proceed with

initial or continued engagement, or otherwise. Each supplier is

assessed according to the use case, nature of work, geographic

location and other relevant features of the engagement or intended

engagement. Depending on the results of the assessment, Facebook

may introduce additional control measures in the engagement. We

routinely perform ongoing third party reassessments on our

suppliers depending on the applicable risks. p. 4

Facebook has a process in place to mitigate the risks of modern

slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain. We manage social

and environmental risks and issues through our Responsible Supply

Chain program. We use a cross-functional consultative process and

data-driven methodology to identify and assess a wide range of

social and environmental risks which includes modern slavery and

human trafficking. For example, type of product or service provided

and geographic location risks are assessed through indices such as

UNICEF’s Child Labor Percentages, Walk Free Foundation’s Global

Slavery Index, the United Nation’s Human Development Index, and

the United States Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons

Report Index. We require our sourcing and procurement teams to

certify periodically whether they are aware if Facebook has ongoing

business relationships with companies identified as being

associated with forced labor. We verify supplier conformance with

RSC policies and standards through continuous dialogue,

independent audits and assessments, corrective action plans,

worker surveys, and other forms of assurance. We collect targeted

metrics on the presence of migrant workers and other types of

worker demographics to find and monitor modern slavery and

human trafficking risks. p. 5

Brittany Quy.....2022-05-06 08:03:51 UTC