One of the main pillars of GTE’s Human Rights work involves integrating its policies and concepts into its business. This effort requires extensive training with internal stakeholders to ensure they understand and adhere to the Company’s policies which are designed to protect rights.
This includes:
- Environmental management and licensing, including rights to land, water, and other natural resources.
- Health and Safety, including the right to life, physical integrity and security.
- Social freedom, including rights to protest and exercise legal rights.
Training sessions for a variety of external stakeholders focus on fundamental Human Rights concepts as well as GTE’s policies and scope of responsibility to the community. These sessions look at GTE’s Human Rights best practices and showcase the overall strategy for addressing and managing any Human Rights issues.
Training The Workforce
A fundamental part of Gran Tierra’s commitment to respecting and promoting human rights is the integration of its Human Rights Policy at all levels of the organization. GTE conducts a range of activities to build awareness and understanding of Human Rights principles among employees, contractors, and supply chain partners. Central to this strategy is regular training, which equips personnel to identify and address potential issues, such as preventing forced and child labour child labour and ensuring safety and respect for social leaders in the communities who live near our operations.
Strengthening Suppliers
Since 2021, Gran Tierra has offered training to its contractors to help them understand and adhere to its Human Rights Policy. To strengthen commitments and good practices within its supply chain, the Company partnered with Hemisferio Consultores and ICESI University to deliver targeted programs to 22 local contracting companies, many of whom have since formalized their own Human Rights policies.
Strengthening transparency and access to information
Transparency, respect, and open communication with communities are key pillars of GTE’s community engagement. In 2024, the Human Rights team rolled out a series of internal workshops designed to strengthen staff capacity and ensure consistent standards for communities’ rights to transparency and access to information.
The workshops were held in Ecuador (4 sessions) and Colombia (2 sessions), reaching 52 employees across the social, environmental, and licensing teams. The sessions covered five topics:
- Guide for Participatory Dialogue
- Guide for Maximum Disclosure and Transparency
- Guide for Differential (Ethnic) Approaches
- Guide to Clear Language and Accessibility
- Document Management Tool
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new courses
2 new human rights courses were developed to help employees, contractors and supply chain partners identify and understand human rights principles
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contracting companies
22 contracting companies received training to understand and comply with GTE’s Human Rights Policy, and many have since adopted their own human rights policies as a result
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training sessions
6 training sessions were held in Colombia and Ecuador, reaching 52 employees across the social, environmental and licensing teams
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