Our Tools
The Mekong Club releases new tools every year, with the aim of helping companies to address modern slavery more efficiently. Each tool has been developed with businesses for businesses, following an engagement process with sector-specific or cross-sector working groups. Each of the five clusters below address specific goals within a company’s anti-slavery strategy.
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Understand modern slavery
Start by learning about what modern slavery is, why it still exists, which risks it poses and how the private sector has the power to make an impact.
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Invite an Expert
free resource
Invite one of our modern slavery experts to come to your place of work and deliver a 60-90 minute tailored talk on the topic.
TOOL FOCUS
- in-person |
- education |
- presentation |
- understand issue
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Modern Slavery: an Introduction
free resource
Get an understanding of the fundamental principles of modern slavery by reading our introductory guide.
Download the Introductory Guide
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- introduction |
- facts about slavery
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Modern slavery: Watch & Learn
members-only
Watch and learn about modern slavery with our short videos and infographics. Jump in and out or take our quizzes and receive a certificate once the course is complete. Multiple languages available.
Watch & Learn training user guide
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- video |
- online learning |
- multilanguage |
- Mandarin |
- Cantonese |
- Flexible |
- Time-effective
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Knowledge Hub
members-only
Delve deeper into the topic by searching archived news articles, blogs, websites, and more.
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- search |
- engine |
- relevant |
- updates
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Private Sector Assessment Research
free resource
Learn about modern slavery research and private sector engagement in selected Asian countries.
Download the Private Sector Assessment Reports
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- private sector |
- assessment |
- research
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Using Blockchain to Combat Modern Slavery
free resource
This booklet introduces the application – and limitations – of blockchain technology in the fight against modern slavery.
Download the Blockchain Booklet
TOOL FOCUS
- blockchain |
- ledger |
- tech |
- solutions
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Assess and mitigate risk
Understand where the risk of modern slavery lies and how to mitigate it.
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Remediation Toolkit
members-only
Equip your organisation with the right tools to address labour violation in supply chains by using these guidelines. This toolkit covers preparation, communication, remedy, and legal action.
Remediation toolkit user guide
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- remediation |
- labour violation |
- plan of action
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Profiling Risk: Countries & Commodities
members-only
Visualise modern slavery risk by country and commodity type using a combination of well-regarded data sources.
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- risk |
- commodity |
- country profile |
- report
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Modern Slavery Typologies for Financial Services
free resource
Allowing financial service professionals to understand typical modern-slavery scenarios for a range of industries, including a typical victim profile, methods of entrapment, and questions that bankers may ask to identify this activity.
Download the Modern Slavery Typologies Report
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- typologies |
- visual |
- modern slavery scenarios |
- red flags |
- indicators |
- patterns |
- suspicious transactions
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Risk assessment heat map
free resource
Conduct smarter supply chain management by using this interactive map of risk of modern slavery, combining publically available data and audit information only available to the Mekong Club. Visualising where the risk lies, by country, region, and commodity.
Coming soon…
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- Ledger |
- Supply chain |
- Commodity |
- Tier |
- Transparency |
- Audit |
- Data |
- Sharing |
- Forced labour
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APPRISE – Victim identification app
free resource
Apprise assists front-line responders screen potential victim of exploitation. Apprise is available for both social compliance auditors as well as NGO workers and law enforcement. The app offers pre-screening questionnaires in several languages.
Download an intro document on Apprise Audit (social compliance auditors version)
Watch a testimonial video on Apprise for NGO/law enforcement
For more information please contact us.
This tool is developed in collaboration with the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society
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- app |
- multi-language |
- interview |
- screening |
- victim self-identification |
- privacy |
- confidentiality
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Become a leader
Reach the forefront of the fight against modern slavery, leading the way for others in your industry to follow.
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Best Practise Case Studies
members-only
See profiles of companies that are leading the way in the fight against modern slavery by browsing our ‘best practise’ library.
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- mentor |
- example |
- best practice
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eMin: Blockchain for Recruitment
free resource
eMin secures key worker documentation using blockchain technology, bringing greater trust, transparency and security to worker recruitment and social auditing. This project is a collaboration with Diginex.
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- blockchain |
- technology |
- recruitment |
- innovation
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EndSlavery App
free resource
Find out exactly how your actions are helping to save people from slavery with our points-based mobile app.
Watch the EndSlavery App intro video
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- care points |
- volunteer |
- caring |
- act |
- community
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Enhance policy & procedures
Develop a framework for your company to address modern slavery.
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Transparency in Supply Chains Compliance Tool
members-only
Understand modern slavery legislation and how it affects your company by navigating our flowcharts.
TISC Compliance tool user guide
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- Modern slavery act |
- california transparency in supply chains act |
- France duty of law |
- summary |
- regulation |
- legislation |
- statement |
- anti-slavery law
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Hospitality Compliance Checklist
members-only
Use this checklist to understand the risks and remedies for modern slavery in the hotel industry. Covering third-party contractors, construction, procurement and forced prostitution.
Hospitality Compliance Checklist user guide
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- hotels |
- contruction |
- procurement |
- checklist |
- forced prostitution |
- third party-contractors
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Asian Labour Laws
members-only
Compare labour violations and domestic law in six Asian countries to see how countries deal differently with modern slavery.
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- labour law |
- domestic law |
- labour violation |
- breach of domestic law |
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Asia Pacific Banks Alliance Whitepaper of Indicators
free resource
This paper is the first publication of the Asia Pacific Banks Alliance Against Modern Slavery, a collective of global banks coordinated by the Mekong Club and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. This paper outlines indicators of modern slavery, case studies, typologies, and recommendations for banks to strengthen their operations against modern slavery risk.
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- finance |
- indicators |
- modern slavery scenarios |
- red flags |
- due diligence |
- suspicious transactions
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Develop your skills
Enhance your skills through continual training and development.
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Responsible Recruitment Resources
members-only
In recent years, a growing number of corporations and their suppliers have begun to adopt strategies to ensure more responsible recruitment as well as to delve deeper into their migrant workforce to address vulnerabilities. The Mekong Club has aligned its Association’s focus on and is hosting a number of activities on this theme.
TOOL FOCUS
- responsible recruitment |
- resources |
- migrant workers
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Introductory Guide, Data and Keywords for Banking
members-only
Read this guide to get an overview of the topic, the risks, and the emerging responses seen by financial service providers in the fight against slavery. This information is coupled with useful infographics on data sources and adverse media screening.
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- data |
- keywords |
- adverse media search |
- adverse news search |
- screening |
- KYC |
- CDD |
- red flags |
- indicators |
- money laundering
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Bank Training: Identifying Suspicious Activity
members-only
Invite our experts in to train financial service staff on how to identify the risks of slavery. This training is tailored to the needs of the audience, ranging from frontline branch staff, to senior leadership, to risk and compliance training. Contact [email protected] for more info.
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- red flags |
- indicators |
- KYC |
- CDD
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