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NAPs under development

Currently, 32 countries are developing a NAPs on business and human rights. Countries such as Argentina, Malaysia and Vietnam are well advanced in the development process, and in some cases adoption is planned in the near future. Some states such as India, Honduras and Liberia officially announced their intention to implement a NAP in 2018, but concrete plans for further development or a planned date of adoption have not yet been determined.

These countries are currently developing a NAP:

Argentina

Start of the process:
2017
Planned year of adoption:
open

Azerbaijan

No further information known

Australia

Start of the process:
2016
Planned year of adoption:
open

Ghana

Start of the process:
2014
Planned year of adoption:
2020

Greece

Start of the process:
not specified
Planned year of adoption:
open

Guatemala

Start of the process:
2017
Planned year of adoption:
open

Honduras

Start of the process:
2018
Planned year of adoption:
open

India

Start of the process:
2018
Planned year of adoption:
open

Indonesia

Start of the process:
2017
Planned year of adoption:
open (originally 2019)

Jordan

No further information known

Kazakhstan

No further information known

Latvia

No further information known

Liberia

Start of the process:
2018
Planned year of adoption:
open

Malaysia

Start of the process:
2015
Planned year of adoption:
open

Mauritius

No further information known

Morocco

Start of the process:
2017
Planned year of adoption:
open

Mozambique

No further information known

Mexico

Start of the process:
2015
Planned year of adoption:
open (originally 2018)

Mongolia

Start of the process:
2019
Planned year of adoption:
2021

Myanmar

Start of the process:
2015
Planned year of adoption:
open

Nicaragua

Start of the process:
2016
Planned year of adoption:
open

Nigeria

Start of the process:
2016
Planned year of adoption:
open

Pakistan

Start of the process:
2019
Planned year of adoption:
open

Philippines

Start of the process:
2013
Planned year of adoption:
open

Peru

Start of the process:
2018
Planned year of adoption:
open

Portugal

Start of the process:
2021
Planned year of adoption:
open

Scotland

Start of the process:
2016
Planned year of adoption:
open

The United Kingdom adopted a National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights (NAP) in 2013. In the context of Scotland’s National Action Plan (SNAP), however, Scotland is compiling a supplementary National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights of its own.

South Africa

Start of the process:
2016
Planned year of adoption:
open

Tanzania

No further information known

Ukraine

Start of the process:
2019
Planned year of adoption:
open

Vietnam

Start of the process:
2018
Planned year of adoption:
2022

Zambia

Start of the process:
2017
Planned year of adoption:
open

Currently 27 countries have adopted a National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights.

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