The Foundation is committed to keeping our people, beneficiaries, donors and other stakeholders safe. We adhere to The Foundation’s Values of Integrity, Collaboration, Resourceful, Empowerment and Action.
These are some of the Policies that guide our work:
- Our Safeguarding People Policy includes our Safeguarding Code of Conduct and sets out The Foundation's zero tolerance approach to harm, including sexual exploitation and abuse to children and other vulnerable people and notes our preventative steps, reporting and commitments regarding modern slavery. The Foundation annually publishes a Modern Slavery Statement which is available here or on the Australian Government’s Modern Slavery Register.
- Our Privacy Policy sets out how we handle and protect your personal information.
- Our Speak-Up Policy outlines that The Foundation encourages a transparent speaking-up culture and environment and will provide support for whistle-blowers. Our procedures in support including those for clinical Serious Untoward Incidents are available here.
- Conflict of Interest Policy: Directors, company officers and all employees are expected to report or declare any specific or relevant conflicts of interest that may arise during their time with The Foundation. This policy explains the duties of the officer and how all employees are expected to comply with them.
- Corporate Governance Charter: Note Principle 9 that The Foundation’s principles of independence and self-sufficiency mean that we do not engage in or support welfare programs, evangelism, or partisan politics either in our own work or the activities and strategies we support and fund.
- Communication & Transparency Policy: The Fred Hollows Foundation (The Foundation) is committed to ensuring its communications are clear, concise and accurate and respect the dignity and rights of our beneficiaries. This policy provides guidance on the principles The Foundation will apply in relation to all communications.
- Procurement: We aim to demonstrate how a leading approach in sustainable procurement can positively influence outcomes for the communities in which we work, our suppliers and their supply chains, our workplaces and our valued partners who support our operations and enable our program outcomes.
- Environmental Sustainability Policy: The Foundation recognises the importance of environmental sustainability and climate change, and this Policy details our commitments to reducing potential negative impacts on the environment and to developing resilience to the impacts of climate change across our operations and programs in our work to end avoidable blindness. We are commited to operating transparently in this space and have accordingly prepared a public disclosure statement detailing our approach over the past year.
- Human Rights Equity & Inclusion Policy The purpose of this policy is to state The Foundation’s support for the universal principles of human rights, equity and inclusion and to apply these principles to its mission to end avoidable blindness. The policy ensures that human rights, equity and inclusion are integral to The Foundation’s values, relationships and approaches.
- Our Financial Crime Policy sets out our commitment to the prevention of financial crime - including fraud, corruption, terrorism financing and money laundering – in all of our activities, operations, projects and programs.
Interested in what The Foundation does within ESG but don’t want to read all of these policies? We’ve summarised it in ESG @ The Foundation here.
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