BSR | Human Rights Impact Assessment: Facebook in Myanmar 40 STANDARD OF LIVING As specified in Article 25 of the UDHR and Article 11 of the ICESCR, everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his or her family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age, or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his or her control. Risk / Opportunity Severity Factors Management Factors What is the potentially adverse human rights impact that might happen in the future? Scope (How many people could be affected by the harm/opportunity?) Likelihood (How likely is the impact to happen over next five years?) Scale (How serious are the impacts for the victim?) Attribution (How closely is Facebook connected to the impact?) Remediability (Will remedy restore the victim to same or equivalent position?) There are opportunities to promote the development of e-commerce (such as digital payments and Facebook Marketplace) on the Facebook platform that could increase access to economic opportunity and improved standard of living. Scope: There are around 20 million Facebook users in Myanmar who could benefit from using the Facebook platform for e-commerce. Scale: Not applicable to opportunities. Remediability: Not applicable to opportunities. Leverage (How much ability does Facebook have to effect change?) Likelihood: There is a “gap” in the marketplace for Facebook to exploit. Attribution: By developing innovative products and services (e.g., digital payments infrastructure, Facebook Marketplace) Facebook will have contributed to the positive impact. Leverage: Facebook has leverage available via the development of its own products and services.