Current Projects

Local Engagement, Action and Dialogue (LEAD) - Through strategic advice, research, facilitation and workshops, Just Ground is supporting EarthRights International in documenting and providing training on strategies and participatory research tools to support community-led responses to human rights abuses in the Mekong region.

Pooled Funding for Community Legal and Technical Support - Just Ground collaborated with Rights CoLab and Namati to facilitate workshops with CSOs and private sector actors and draft a brief setting out the core principles for the creation of a pooled funding facility for legal and technical support for communities affected by land-based investment projects. Just Ground now serves as a technical advisor as the initiative moves forward to identifying pathways to implementation.

Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) Toolkit - Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) recognizes that workers have the knowledge and expertise to develop their own solutions to systematically eradicate exploitation on the job. Just Ground and the WSR Network are collaborating on a WSR Toolkit to support organizations seeking to implement WSR, based on the experiences and expertise of the worker organizations and their allies.

Business and Human Rights Training for Human Rights Defenders in Exile - In collaboration with Araminta and Rights CoLab, designed and delivered a three-day intensive business and human rights training program in Zakopane, Poland for 30 Russian human rights activists in exile. The project is now in a mentorship phase, providing guidance to a cohort of training participants engaged in project development, and a facilitating a workshop for them in early 2026 to share learnings.

Past Projects 

Access to Remedy in the Mekong Region: Challenges, Strategies and Recommendations for Change - In collaboration with EarthRights International, co-facilitated a workshop that gathered 30 human rights defenders, community activists, and lawyers to discuss their challenges, share strategies, and make recommendations for improving access to remedy for human rights abuses linked to corporate activity in the Mekong Region.

Global Advocacy Team Support - International Accountability Project’s Global Advocacy Team (GAT) initiative brings together community activists and collectives from around the world and supports them in developing their own community-led development plans using community-led research and data. Just Ground supported this initiative by reviewing team members’ written reports and facilitating a workshop on collaborative data analysis.

Exploring Challenges to Company Adoption of Community-Designed Grievance Mechanisms - Facilitated a workshop sponsored by the ABA International Human Rights Committee, the ABA Corporate Social Responsibility Committee and the ABA Center for Human Rights to explore the issues involved in collaborative or community-led design of operation-level grievance mechanisms (OGMs) as tools for remediation when a company has caused or contributed to human rights harms.

Milk With Dignity - Designed and lead a program evaluation on behalf of the Fair Food Standards Council, employing the Collaborative Outcomes Reporting framework and quantitative and qualitative methods.

Presentations

The Practice of International Lawyering with a Rights-based Perspective: Illuminating the Roles of Human Rights Defenders and Rights-Holders, Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), ABA International Law Section and the Paris Bar, December 6-8, 2023.

The Human Rights Due Diligence Process - Practical Guidance for Lawyers, Business and Human Rights Forum for Legal Practitioners – 3rd Edition, International Association of Lawyers, July 10-12, 2023

Stakeholder Engagement in Human Rights Due Diligence, The European Turn to Sustainability Due Diligence: From Concept to Obligation, Asser Institute Spring Academy, April 3-5, 2023

Publications