ISBN 978-612-4225-48-2

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The National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights 2021-2025, the first of its kind in the country and the third in Latin America and the Pacific Alliance, is part of a State policy, whose objective is to guarantee the protection and respect of human rights in the field of business activities. It is also the result of an arduous collaborative work in which, since January 2019, 132 State institutions, the business sector, indigenous peoples, trade unions and organized civil society have participated, with the support of international organizations and international cooperation.

Its approval marks an important milestone in public policies on human rights, since for the first time the business sector is formally incorporated in this type of process, through a set of collaborative actions with the State and all social actors to promote an increasingly strong culture of business due diligence on human rights. But it is more than that. The process of preparing this plan, which included the approval of its methodology and the dialogue on 23 diagnostic and baseline reports, has been a clear demonstration of the importance and great possibilities of multi-stakeholder dialogue as a condition and engine of sustainable development. It is a dialogue based on good faith, equality, inclusion, decentralization and search for consensus; that builds agreements, that admits the existence of discrepancies, trying to process them with the conviction that these are also opportunities to continue strengthening ties of collaboration in pursuit of a common goal: the dignity of the human person, the improvement of the quality of life of people directly or indirectly linked to business activities, especially those who are most vulnerable, such as women, children and adolescents, indigenous and afro-peruvian peoples, LGBTI people, people with disabilities, migrants, older people, among other groups.