Safeguarding
Committee responsible for overseeing management, advising the board on ethics matters, and overseeing ethics-related policies, including safeguarding, and management’s implementation of ethics systems.
What is the Joint Ethics and Safeguarding Committee (JESC)?
A workplace where employees feel uncomfortable and intimidated.
What is a hostile work environment?
Your sister’s company has submitted a bid to be a Mercy Corps vendor. You’re a member of the team in charge of selecting the vendor.
What is a conflict of interest?
Mercy Corps’ tool for anyone around the world to submit an ethics complaint.
What is the Integrity Hotline?
Team members in each country who act as reporting mechanisms, provide ethics training and connect survivors with support services.
Who are focal points? (or Champions)
A hiring manager selects a male candidate over a more qualified female candidate because they are concerned a female won’t be able to represent the organization and program due to the fact that most external engagements are with males.
What is discrimination?
Your team has been waiting a long time for visas, so you make a small payment to a government official to speed up the process.
What is a facilitation payment?
Mercy Corps’ policy to not tolerate misconduct against anyone who has submitted an ethical complaint.
What is the non-retaliation policy? (Or whistle blower policy)
A method of investigating safeguarding reports while respecting the dignity, safety and privacy of survivors.
What is a survivor-centered approach?
Setting impossible expectations and constantly changing those expectations in order to set up a team member for failure.
What is Bullying?
A news source has offered you money in return for sharing confidential project data.
What is bribery?
The complete name of the channel for community members and program participants to confidentially submit complaints and feedback to Mercy Corps.
What is the Community Accountability Reporting Mechanism (CARM)?
A type of sexual harassment where someone offers job-related help in exchange for sexual favors.
What is Quid Pro Quo?
Increased scrutiny of a whistleblower’s job performance in the hopes they will quit.
What is retaliation?
A vendor offers to pay a team member a percentage of the contract fees if selected in a tender.
What is a kickback?
The term used to mean that someone making an ethical report has the organization’s best interest at heart and reasonable belief that prohibited activities are taking place.
What is in good faith?