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ESG & Sustainability Governance
Strengthening governance systems that enable organisations to integrate environmental, social and ethical considerations into business decision-making.
We help organisations translate responsible-business commitments into practical systems, stronger governance and measurable impact across people, operations and value chains.
Organisations today operate in an increasingly complex environment of human-rights expectations, sustainability regulations, stakeholder scrutiny and supply-chain risks.
Policies alone are not enough.
Our work brings together strategic thinking, field experience and responsible-business frameworks to help organisations build systems that work in the real world.
Strategic advisory across ESG, human rights, responsible supply chains, governance and operational implementation.
Strengthening governance systems that enable organisations to integrate environmental, social and ethical considerations into business decision-making.
Supporting organisations to identify, assess, prevent, mitigate and address human-rights risks across operations and value chains.
Helping organisations strengthen supplier accountability, social sustainability and responsible sourcing practices.
Designing and operationalising grievance mechanisms and remediation systems that are accessible, credible and responsive.
Embedding responsible-business and sustainability considerations into procurement and supplier-management processes.
Helping organisations understand and manage social risks affecting workers, communities and other stakeholders.
Providing strategic perspectives on ESG, human rights, responsible business governance and emerging sustainability expectations.
Responsible business is not created by frameworks alone. It is created when policies, systems, people and decisions work together.
Understanding the business context, emerging expectations and long-term implications.
Experience of working close to operations, workers, suppliers and communities.
Connecting sustainability and human rights with accountability, risk and decision-making.
Moving beyond assessment and reporting towards systems that can actually operate.
Connecting international expectations with the realities of implementation across complex value chains.
Over more than two decades, our work has involved responsible business, human rights, social sustainability and supply-chain governance across diverse sectors and geographies.
Human Rights | ESG | Responsible Supply Chains | Governance
DRD works with organisations that recognise that responsible business is increasingly central to resilience, trust and long-term value creation.
We believe responsible development is not a separate business agenda. It is embedded in how organisations decide, source, employ, produce, govern, listen, respond and grow.
Our approach connects global standards with practical implementation.
Understand the organisation, its operating context, stakeholders and value-chain realities.
Identify material risks, gaps, vulnerabilities and opportunities.
Focus resources on issues that matter most to people, business resilience and responsible growth.
Develop practical systems, governance structures, processes and interventions.
Translate recommendations into operational action.
Track effectiveness, outcomes and areas requiring improvement.
Build organisational capability so responsible practices become embedded.
Our work draws on internationally recognised responsible-business principles and frameworks.
Founder & Principal Advisor, Direction Towards Responsible Development.
For more than two decades, Deepti Mittal has worked at the intersection of business, human rights, sustainability and responsible supply chains.
Her experience spans human-rights due diligence, social sustainability, responsible sourcing, grievance and remediation systems, ethical recruitment, supplier accountability and ESG governance across Asia and EMEA.
Her work has involved engaging with organisations, supply chains, workers and other stakeholders to understand how responsible-business principles translate into operational reality.
Ideas, observations and practical perspectives on the issues shaping responsible business.
The future of responsible business will not be determined only by what organisations report. It will be determined by what they do.
Read Insight →Understanding why supplier accountability and human-rights risks increasingly belong in strategic conversations.
Read Insight →Why meaningful ESG governance requires better questions, clearer accountability and stronger decision-making.
Read Insight →Whether you are strengthening your ESG governance, reviewing human-rights risks, transforming your supply-chain approach or building stronger grievance and remediation systems, DRD can help you take the next step.
Start a ConversationResponsible-business challenges are rarely solved by a single policy or intervention.