With ethics and good governance

Responsibility and commitment are two essential elements which characterize the Pere Tarrés Foundation’s identity and modus operandi. The entity aims to act in coherence with its principles to establish codes, criteria, policies and practical guidelines, for both the internal operations of the Foundation as well as for its external activity.

ETHICAL CODE

The purpose of the ethical code is to define a few precise, essential guidelines to clarify who we are and how we engage with society, our users and service recipients, and our collaborators. They are, therefore, the guidelines that allow us to identify ourselves with both goals and actions, as well as with a way of proceeding and relating to our environment.

ETHICAL CODE OF THE PERE TARRÉS FOUNDATION Main agreements of the Board of Trustees 2021

EHICAL CODE

Since 2018, we have had an ethics channel that aims to prevent infractions of internal or external rules of conduct that may be committed by any member of the Foundation, as well as by collaborators and third parties that are related to the entity.

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CODE OF GOOD PRACTICES

The application of ethical code is collected and specified in the code of good practices. They are classified into three large sections depending on the position or field to which they concern. Good practices are established for each position category (board of trustees, management, workers), for certain areas (hiring, fundraising, relationship with other entities) and, finally, transversal practices, aimed at the proper functioning of the Foundation as a whole.

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Every year we make a follow-up report, which you can consult

Transparency and Good Governance Accreditation

We have the accreditation of good practices in transparency and good governance granted by Fundación Lealtad, an independent and non-profit institution that audits the main entities and NGOs of the Spanish State. It is a unique distinction in Spain that helps donors to clearly and simply recognize those NGOs that meet current demands for transparency and efficiency in management.

Hiring and purchasing policies

Our ethical code urges us to avoid economic and contractual relationships with activities contrary to human rights recognized in international treaties or in the mission and values of the Foundation. In addition to trying to establish relationships with suppliers that work with values closer to those that govern our activity. In this sense, the contracting and purchasing policy is governed by criteria such as objectivity, quality and independence.

The practical guidelines derived from these criteria are, for example, assessing the social value provided by suppliers, trying to choose the services and products of social entities (integration companies, cooperatives, etc.), prioritizing the purchase and internal use of services and products that are respectful of the environment, sustainable, fair trade and, as a whole, that have a social and cultural value.

Audits and controls

To guarantee the sustainability and responsibility of our entity, the budget is constantly monitored. In addition, policies and systematic procedures are applied to control economic management in terms of evaluation and authorization in contracting suppliers, making purchases, invoicing and payment, following criteria of economic sustainability, quality and ethics. Every year we submit to an audit of accounts; in 2021 it was carried out by Pleta Auditors.

Development, training and identity

During the year 2022, almost 9,000 professionals from the Pere Tarrés Foundation were trained, most of them online, the training offer and the skills development possibilities of the entity's team. E-learning training has continued to be an option to be able to reach geographically dispersed teams and to be able to share virtual spaces with other colleagues, as well as the professionalization of the different groups.

During 2022, work on the identity and values of the team with the entity was deepened, as well as developing spaces for spirituality and interiority.

Occupational risk prevention

Until the middle of 2022, the work of the Occupational Risk Prevention service has continued to be very focused on the preventive and informative management of the pandemic, especially through online sessions or through theoretical simulations. The online methodology has made it possible to increase training in occupational risk prevention, as well as in aspects related to covid-19. We have also digitized the health monitoring processes. With the introduction of remote work, we have given ergonomic and safety guidelines to people who have part of the working day in a remote format.

Declaration of institutional commitment to child protection

The protection of children must be an institutional obligation for social organizations. That is why at the Pere Tarrés Foundation we take on the challenge of making it visible and we are committed to continuously building a policy for the protection of children and good treatment (policy for the protection of children and adolescents) that will mark all the relevant aspects related to activity aimed at children in which our organization participates

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