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Controls and audits

HI’s work at headquarters and in the field are regularly subject to internal and external controls and audits.

Cambodia, Kampong Champ, Channa, amputated and fitted with a prosthesis by HI, here on her way to school with a friend. Cambodia, Kampong Champ, Channa, amputated and fitted with a prosthesis by HI, here on her way to school with a friend. Cambodia, Kampong Champ, Channa, amputated and fitted with a prosthesis by HI, here on her way to school with a friend. Cambodia, Kampong Champ, Channa, amputated and fitted with a prosthesis by HI, here on her way to school with a friend.
 

Internal control

To ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of its activities, HI implements internal controls that mobilise all our managers, supervisors and staff and are designed to achieve the following objectives:

  • Optimise the implementation of our operations in line with management policies
  • Ensure the reliability of our financial information
  • Ensure conformity with the laws and regulations in effect
  • Guarantee compliance with contractual undertakings
 
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Practice of Internal Control

Definition, responsibilities and implementation at HI
Internal Auditing Toolkit
July 2018

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Internal Audit Charter

HI has an internal auditing system covering the Federation and the other federal network entities, our national associations and our programmes in the field.

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Checklist for professional ethics

In the volatile settings in which HI operates, we invest considerable effort in safeguarding our assets and resources and fighting bribery and corruption.

 

External control

In addition to internal checks and audits, HI’s management and activities are submitted to different categories of external controls. These include audits by our statutory auditor, as well as controls and audits conducted by the European Commission, international cooperation or United Nations agencies, as well as national funding agencies, for projects financed and implemented in the field.

 

 

Label IDEAS
 

With the help of the Institute for the Development of Ethics and Action for Solidarity (IDEAS), in January 2016 the HI Federaton engaged in enhancing its governance, financial management and effectiveness. Within this framework, the HI Federation has exposed its management and its transparency mechanisms to the criteria of the IDEAS Guide to Good Practice. At the end of the process, on the basis of external controls and a audition conducted by an independent committee, the HI federation obtained the IDEAS Label. This IDEAS Label was renewed in 2020.

 
 
 

The humanitarian partnership certificat

 

The Handicap International Federation has been granted the humanitarian partnership certificate by DG ECHO.

 
 

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