While civil society increasingly holds corporations accountable for modern slavery or broader human rights impacts, transparency in reporting requirements (such as those in Australia’s Modern Slavery Act) appear to focus less on ‘accountability’ and more on ‘countability’. But what does this mean practically? Does it matter? And can countability lead to accountability?

We’ve had a busy few months working with leading organisations across Australia to identify operational gaps and risks, develop action plans, deliver modern slavery and human rights engagement and awareness raising workshops, identify supply chain risks and prioritise procurement spend categories and suppliers. In this post we share a few initial insights from our work.