Spotlight: Corporate Accountability Resource Bank / 39 Free Tools, Community-Vetted

Hi everyone,

Sharing a resource from ODCAN member Open Supply Hub, developed in collaboration with Wikirate.

The organizations have crowdsourced input directly from civil society organizations, researchers, and practitioners, asking: what free tools do you actually rely on?

The result is the Corporate Accountability Resource Bank, a list of 39 community-vetted, free tools organized into 11 categories, including:

  • Supply chain mapping & tracing
  • Risk identification & due diligence
  • Worker voice, grievance & remediation
  • Responsible recruitment & migrant worker rights
  • Chemical safety & safer materials
  • Wages & living income
  • Environmental & climate data
  • Corporate & ownership data
  • Advocacy, messaging & investigative resources
  • Allegation & litigation tracking
  • Benchmarks & corporate scorecards

Every tool listed is free for its core functionality, with the full bank filterable by category, sector, geographic scope, and resource type.

Relevance for ODCAN

For a network like ours, where members are already stretched thin on capacity, having a single, vetted entry point to dozens of free tools can save real time in research, due diligence, and advocacy work, and help avoid duplicating tool-discovery efforts across organizations.

The list is also a living resource: if you use a free tool that isn’t included yet, there’s a submission form to suggest it for future updates:

:link: More information on the Corporate Accountability Resource Bank