To our stakeholders:

I am pleased to confirm that Global Property & Facilities International reaffirms its support of the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact in the areas of Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption.

In this annual Communication on Progress, we describe our actions to continually improve the integration of the Global Compact and its principles into our business strategy, culture and daily operations. We also commit to share this information with our stakeholders using our primary channels of communication.

Sincerely yours,

Dr Muhammad Kassim Olatunde BALOGUN
Group CEO

To our stakeholders:

I am pleased to confirm that Global Property & Facilities International reaffirms its support Human Rights in our business operations and operating countries, our policies and procedures will continue to be to ensure the compliance to the universal principle that all humans are equal and have equal opportunities in our company. We will align our operations, policies and procedures with all international and local laws.

We will achieve zero discrimination and 100% equal pay and equal opportunities for all categories of employees. Our industry is a labour intensive industry, as such we will ensure all employees engaged to work with our company have the right they are entitled to.

Sincerely yours,

Dr Muhammad Kassim Olatunde BALOGUN
Group CEO

As a company, we will continue to review of HR policies and manuals to ensure compliance to international human right charters and UN Charter on Human and Peoples right, we will follow up with ensuring all employees or applicants have equal opportunities at all times. We will continually organise training and awareness programs on human rights, we have designated our HR manager has the Human Right Champion. We will create avenue for employees to share their view about human rights through our whistle blower platform.

As an organisation, we have not had any reported cases of human right abuse since inception, however, we are mindful that employees may not find the right avenues to report cases, we have therefore created whistle blowing platforms as well as complain channels for this. We have HR committee of management responsible for reviewing cases and making recommendations to the management and board for policy changes. In the company years, we intend to explore the engegement of a consultant to handle such cases and make recommendations.

Our company employee handbook is aligned with both ILO and Nigerian Labour Law
Our HR policy and procedures are designed to ensure that we do not engage in any illegal employee relations and employment practices and they state the right of every employee under the Nigerian law and in line with the ILO Core Conventions
Our Contractor engagement and management principles are aligned to same principles and including ensuring that their employees are protected from hazards
Our goal is to the best employer in our industry and achieving zero human right violations

As a company, we will continue to review of HR policies and manuals to ensure compliance to international human right charters and UN Charter on Human and Peoples right, we will follow up with ensuring all employees or applicants have equal opportunities at all times. We will continually organise training and awareness programs on human rights, we have designated our HR manager has the Human Right Champion. We will create avenue for employees to share their view about human rights through our whistle blower platform.
We are a member of Nigerian Employers Consultative Association as well as other organisations aligned to ensuring the protection of employee rights

As an organisation, we have not had any reported cases of human right abuse since inception, however, we are mindful that employees may not find the right avenues to report cases, we have therefore created whistle blowing platforms as well as complain channels for this. We have HR committee of management responsible for reviewing cases and making recommendations to the management and board for policy changes. In the company years, we intend to explore the engegement of a consultant to handle such cases and make recommendations.

The company has a written policy on environmental responsibility and ownership
We track and are planning to go further to track impact of our business on the environment, we have other the years work to reduce the impact by 10% every year
We are also working with partners to achieve same
Our goal is to eliminate the impact of air conditioning maintenance on the environment in 2021 by replace all ozone depleting gases to R401.

The company has designated a senior manager in charge of HSE, he is responsible to ensure the company achieve her environmental policy objectives and business goals on the environment
As a company, we are focused on improve our service delivery through technology, we have deployed the use of indoor air quality measurement technology, cleaning equipment and non-chemical use machines to reduce the impact of our activities on the environment
Our Environment Policy clearly states out commitment to ensuring our activities does not impact the environment
Monthly HSE awareness sessions are held to ensure all employees are aware of our business goals, we are working to extend that to our suppliers

Monthly international HSE Audit is carried out on all our locations
Half yearly external audit is carried out
Result of the audits are used to improve the policy implementation and compliance
We will start publishing our annual environmental stewardship report from 2021

An annual risk assessment of our work environment, industry and countries of operation is done and published annually as part of our annual report
The company has a published policy on zero tolerance to corruption, bribery and extortion and this is circulated internally and with all stakeholders
We affirm our commitment to support UN Convention Against Corruption
We have published policy and also part of our procurement process to ensure our supply partners adhere to our anti-corruption policy
Our annual goal is to record zero incident of giving or collecting bribes by employees and partners

Our whistle blower policy and system allows us to get feedback on the policy on anti-corruption
Our Quarterly employee engagement events/meetings are also used to create awareness on this
Our risk and compliance manager is responsible for ensuring anti-corruption policies and adhered to and monitored

Our policy on ethical mis-behaviour - corruption and bribery is dismissal from employment, termination of supply contract/backlisting of the vendor and or withdrawal of doing business with the client.
As a company we have not given or encourage the taking of bribes in relation to getting business from clients, we always walk away from such jobs and blacklist the client
We have reduced incident of bribe taking and giving to zero as a company in the last one