The Centre for Child Rights and Business

What The Centre for Child Rights and Business does

The Centre for Child Rights and Business is a non-profit advisory organization, wholly owned by R\u00e4dda Barnen Service AB (ultimately owned by Save the Children Sweden), operating from Hong Kong and Beijing with active programmes across 36 countries in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Its core function is to help multinational brands, retailers, and their supply-chain suppliers prevent and remediate child labour, conduct child-rights risk assessments, create family-friendly workplaces, and support young workers \u2014 areas now under heightened regulatory pressure from instruments such as the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and Germany's Supply Chain Act. The organization's offering combines an eight-service advisory catalogue (Prevent and Remediate Child Labour, Understand and Address Risks, Responsibly Manage Your Supply Chain, Create Family-Friendly Workplaces, Support Young Workers, CRIB Working Group, Child Rights Action Hubs, and the Mother and Child-Friendly Seal certification) with structured sub-programmes (WeCare Family-Friendly Workplaces, Access to Decent Work for Youth, Child Rights Changemaker, Gender Champions) and digital knowledge products (The Centre Learning Lab, The CRIB Podcast).

Service delivery rests on three structural assets: (i) the Child Rights Action Hub model \u2014 multi-stakeholder programmes currently active in Bangladesh, DRC, Malaysia, and Pakistan that bring together brands, suppliers, local NGOs, and trained Community Focal Points and Case Managers; (ii) proprietary operating data from 1,542 child-labour remediation cases and longitudinal social-audit research (2016 baseline, 2026 global follow-up); and (iii) a recurring CRIB Working Group membership platform. There is no proprietary software platform; the technology stack is conventional (website, e-learning, CRM, social channels) and AI/ML is not deployed in the disclosed operating model.

Revenue comes from three streams: fee-based advisory services to corporate clients, project-based funding from institutional donors (notably USDOL Bureau of International Labor Affairs, GIZ on behalf of BMZ, FCDO, and UNICEF), and recurring CRIB Working Group and Seal-related membership income. Named enterprise clients span apparel (H&M, IKEA, Primark, Under Armour), retail (Walmart, Target), food and beverage (Nestl\u00e9, McDonald's), electronics (Fairphone), mining (CMOC, Fair Cobalt Alliance), and palm oil (Wilmar, Sawit Kinabalu), while Sri Lanka tea estates participate in the Mother and Child-Friendly Seal initiative. The Centre delivers 100+ projects across 21 countries per year and reaches more than 400 global buyers and suppliers.

Name

The Centre for Child Rights and Business

Legal name

CCR CSR (HK) Limited

Website

https://childrights-business.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Centre for Child Rights and Business is a non-profit consultancy, owned by Save the Children Sweden, advising multinational brands, retailers, and suppliers on preventing and remediating child labour in global supply chains through fee-based advisory services, multi-stakeholder Child Rights Action Hubs, and donor-funded programmes across 36 countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Human Rights and Sustainability Advisory

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Child Protection & Child Rights (BPAGABAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Child Rights & Protection (BPADAGAG)

Keywords

• Child rights consulting
• Supply chain advisory
• Child labour prevention
• Human rights due diligence
• Family-friendly workplaces

Headquarters

HQ city

Beijing

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Advisory and Consulting Services: The Centre provides fee-based advisory services to businesses including child rights risk assessments, supply chain management support, training programs, and remediation program design. Services are customized to client needs across various industry sectors.
2. Project-Based Funding: Implementation of funded projects in partnership with international donors, governments, and corporations. Examples include USDOL-funded MY Voice project, GIZ/SASI-funded Due Diligence Fund projects, and FCDO-funded initiatives.
3. Membership and Working Group Participation: CRIB Working Group membership provides companies with collaborative access to best practices, latest research, and peer learning on child rights issues.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Centre for Child Rights and Business is a non-profit advisory organization that helps global brands, retailers, and their suppliers integrate child rights into corporate practices and supply chains. Its core services cover child labour prevention and remediation, supply chain risk assessments, family-friendly workplace design, support for young workers, and multi-stakeholder Child Rights Action Hubs. It also operates the CRIB Working Group, the Mother and Child-Friendly Seal certification, and the Centre Learning Lab online training platform.

Product overview

The Centre for Child Rights and Business is a consultancy organization (formerly CCR CSR) offering a comprehensive portfolio of services focused on child rights in global supply chains. The core offering consists of eight interconnected service areas: Prevent and Remediate Child Labour, Understand and Address Risks, Responsibly Manage Your Supply Chain, Create Family-Friendly Workplaces, Support Young Workers, CRIB Working Group collaboration platform, Child Rights Action Hubs, and the Mother and Child-Friendly Seal certification initiative. Supporting these core services are specialized sub-programmes including the WeCare Family-Friendly Workplaces Programme (with Working Parent Training, Advanced Parent Training, and Parenting Training for Fathers), the Access to Decent Work for Youth (AD-Y) programme, the Child Rights Changemaker Programme with its Supporter-Initiator-Changemaker tier system, and the Gender Champions Programme. The Centre Learning Lab provides online training courses, while The CRIB Podcast serves as a knowledge dissemination channel. Impact metrics demonstrate significant reach: 109 Child Friendly Spaces, 31,306 parent workers trained, 340,270 children reached, 266,258 workers reached, 1,542 child labour cases handled, operations across 36 countries, and 1,030 companies reporting positive changes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Prevent and Remediate Child Labour Services to help businesses monitor, prevent and remediate child labour in all its forms across supply chains.
• Understand and Address Risks Child rights and human rights risk assessment services to effectively manage risks in supply chains.
• Responsibly Manage Your Supply Chain Supply chain management services spanning special investigations to bespoke projects addressing specific child rights risks.
• Create Family-Friendly Workplaces Services addressing needs of working parents, their children and young workers while responding to suppliers' needs.
• Support Young Workers Services helping businesses understand needs of young workers, respond to regulations, incorporate best practices and create decent work opportunities.
• CRIB Working Group Collaborative platform enabling members to share best practice and access latest information and insights related to child rights.
• Child Rights Action Hubs Multi-stakeholder initiatives driving collective impact to prevent and remediate child labour at scale. Currently active in Bangladesh, DRC, Malaysia, and Pakistan.
• The Mother and Child-Friendly Seal for Responsible Business Recognition initiative for businesses in tea and tourism sectors demonstrating commitment to child rights and family-friendly practices. Two-year cycle with Seal logo usage granted upon completion.
• The Centre Learning Lab Online training platform offering courses on child labour identification and prevention, including training on what to do when child labour is found and how to prevent cases from recurring.

Quantifiable outcome

• 340,270 children reached by programs
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers21 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

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Partnerships

19 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• UNICEFcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 July 2026Joint study on 'Making Children Count: Child Rights and the Future of ESG in Asia' examining child rights disclosures among 1,399 companies across nine Asian markets. UNICEF and The Centre collaborate on research to improve disclosure quality and child rights management.
• Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 June 2026The Centre became a member of RSPO to contribute to palm oil sector child rights guidance. Previously contributed to development of four child rights guidance documents for the palm oil sector (2019). RSPO participated in Child Rights Action Hub Malaysia launch (2024) and co-facilitated forced labour guidelines workshop (2025).
• NestlécoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to expand Child Rights Action Hub Malaysia in Sabah's palm oil sector. Funded through Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains Initiative (SASI) Due Diligence Fund implemented by GIZ on behalf of German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
• Save the ChildrencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Centre's parent organization structure includes Rädda Barnen AB (Save the Children Sweden) as parent company. Collaborative approaches on child rights issues in supply chains.
• Social Accountability International (SAI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerImplementing partner in MY Voice project funded by USDOL Bureau of International Labor Affairs ($5 million cooperative agreement IL-37321-21-75-K). SAI leads the overall MY Voice initiative with The Centre implementing Child Rights Action Hub Malaysia component.
• GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerImplementing partner for Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains Initiative (SASI) Due Diligence Fund. The Centre receives funding through GIZ for palm oil sector child rights work in Malaysia on behalf of German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
• Rainforest AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Unilever funding to implement Gender Champions programme in Sri Lanka's tea sector. Phase 1 covered Agarapatana Plantations' 19 tea estates; Phase 2 extended to 13 additional estates.
• UnilevercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFunding partner for Gender Champions programme in Sri Lanka's tea sector through Rainforest Alliance partnership. Supports gender equality and child rights work across tea supply chains.
• ProforestminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with Proforest and commissioned by RSPO to develop child rights guidance documents for palm oil sector (2019). Also co-facilitated workshops under MY Voice project.
• Humana Child Aid SocietycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal partner in Sabah, Malaysia for MY Voice Child Rights Action Hub. Humana's teachers serve as child rights focal points and case managers, providing remediation services for children in palm oil plantation communities, including undocumented migrant families.
• Komunitas Sahabat TKIcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndonesian migrant workers organization in Sabah engaged for Training-of-Trainers on child labour prevention and remediation. Collaborates on community-level capacity building for palm oil plantation workers.
• Komunitas SahabatcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal partner providing Training-of-Trainers sessions for Community Focal Points in Sabah's palm oil sector. Supports continuity of child labour prevention and remediation efforts.
• Etania Schools of SabahcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAlternative learning centre in palm oil plantations providing education for underprivileged children. Community Focal Points trained from this organization for MY Voice Child Rights Action Hub.
• SLR Better MiningcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMoU signed with Child Rights Action Hub DRC for collaboration on identification and access to remedy for child labour cases in ASM mine sites. SLR Better Mining teams trained on child rights, child safeguarding, and child identification. Refers identified cases to Action Hub for remediation.
• 4C ServicesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in webinar on strengthening children's rights in coffee and cocoa supply chains. 4C Services provides technical insights alongside Save the Children and The Centre on monitoring systems and risk assessment tools.
• amforiminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndustry association for business performance and supply chain management. Collaboration on responsible supply chain practices and child rights standards.
• AIM-ProgressminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndustry association supporting consumer goods companies in responsible sourcing. Collaboration on social compliance and child labour prevention resources.
• SAI (Social Accountability International)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerStandards organization for social compliance. Co-facilitated workshops under MY Voice project on forced labour guidelines (2025).
• Our JourneyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProject partner under MY Voice initiative, co-facilitating workshops on responsible sourcing standards.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• amfori: Industry association for sustainable supply chain management, partner of The Centre on responsible sourcing; comparable as a membership-based platform serving European brands on social audits and human-rights due diligence.
• Better Work (ILO/IFC): ILO/IFC joint program improving labor conditions in global garment and footwear supply chains; directly comparable to The Centre's WeCare and AD-Y programs targeting factory workers and young workers in Asia.
• Verité: Research and advisory organization focused on labor rights and supply chain ethics; comparable to The Centre's risk-assessment and remediation services for global brands and suppliers.
• Rainforest Alliance: Partner with The Centre on the Unilever-funded Gender Champions programme in Sri Lanka's tea sector; comparable as a certification and supply-chain sustainability organization working with plantations and global brands.
• Social Accountability International (SAI): Standards body and implementing partner on the MY Voice project alongside The Centre; comparable as a social-compliance standards and capacity-building provider serving brands and suppliers.
• Fair Labor Association: Industry-led collaborative that audits and certifies apparel and supply-chain labor conditions; directly comparable to The Centre's CRIB Working Group and social-audit advisory offering, serving similar enterprise buyers and suppliers.

Broad incumbents

• BSR (Business for Social Responsibility): Global sustainability consultancy advising multinationals on human rights and supply chain due diligence; broader in scope than The Centre but competes for the same enterprise ESG budget and supplier-level advisory mandates.
• UNICEF: Active research and policy partner on child-rights disclosure in Asia; comparable in mandate around child welfare, but at much greater scale and breadth across health, education, and humanitarian response rather than corporate advisory.
• Save the Children: Parent organization and global NGO operating child-rights programs worldwide; overlaps directly with The Centre's mission and shares governance, but operates across humanitarian aid, health, and education rather than specializing in corporate supply-chain advisory.
• ILO International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC): UN-led global program on child labour elimination; direct thematic overlap with The Centre's remediation work, but operates as a multilateral policy and standards body rather than as a fee-based corporate advisor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

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