FGG BE ToC 1: Improved Corporate Conduct In 2016 Both Ends will build on the work of previous years and continue to engage in advocacy work in the Netherlands and abroad as well as in joint capacity building activities focused on enabling partners in the global South to among other things actively participate in national and international advocacy processes. We will focus on a number of policy processes concerning the implementation of improved standards, regulation, safeguards limiting the impacts of (multinational) companies, financers and investors on human rights and the environment. Both ENDS will amongst other things focus on working with local partners on promoting and monitoring states’ implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) in developing countries, as well as the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the SDGs. The Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) procedures and the infrastructure sector will be major points of discussion for Both ENDS within the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue processes of the Dutch Government. Furthermore Both ENDS will be focusing on the fields of agro-ecology and small-scale land users. In 2016, Both ENDS aims to innovate this field together with local partners through technological advances, diversification of crops and trees, sustainable conservation of ecosystems, and improving land use practices through participatory guarantee systems. In addition, Both ENDS will be working towards alternative market access spaces such as continuing work in the Rich Forest and Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) activities. In the agro-commodity sector Both ENDS will continue to be active in various platforms such the Dutch Soy Coalition and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), where Both ENDS serves on the board of governors and several working groups, to monitor companies and governments to ensure that they live up to commitments and provide space and redress for affected people. In 2016 Both ENDS intends to continue to liaise with the Dutch Minister, the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and embassies to concretise their commitments towards a 100% sustainable production chain and imports. In 2016 Both ENDS will explore how to develop the normative legal case for divestment from fossil fuel related companies and pension funds. This will include exploring the use of OECD Guidelines for filing cases against individual companies for their contribution to climate impact as well as using multi-stakeholder processes to influence pension funds and institutional investors. Both ENDS and partners are involved in various grievance mechanisms, and will continue this work in 2016 by supporting workers, communities, individuals and CSOs in the Global South seeking to address and, in some instances, prevent human rights abuses related to corporate activity through both legal proceedings (in host and home jurisdictions) and through Non-Judicial Grievance Mechanisms (NJGMs). Both ENDS will continue to support various cases in amongst other places Brazil, Senegal and Panama against the for example the National Contact Point (NCP) and the FMO. Both ENDS will organise capacity building workshops with local partner CSOs in order to improve their monitoring and advocacy capacity as well as capacity to handle grievance cases.