Our Legacy - Social Impact
Our Legacy
Social Impact
OUR PEOPLE
Haggar group is committed to equal opportunities for all, irrespective of colour, race, religious belief, ethnic or national origins, gender, marital status, disability or age. We are committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity and diversity, with emphasis on employing nationals, whenever possible.
Haggar works hard to ensure that access to employment, internship, training and promotion is free from discrimination and based solely on the objective assessment of ability, competency and other job related criteria.
Haggar Group measures selection of its suppliers and service providers on the basis of committing, at least, basic human rights and fair labour practices. The group has zero tolerance to any service provider involved with unfair trade practices or practicing forced or child labour.
Haggar Group will be guided in the conduct of its business vis-à-vis its employed persons by provisions of the Labour Laws.
Through its CSI activities,
Haggar will focus on the below subjects
- Efficiently use human resources, while ensuring fair representation of historically under-represented groups (including women and disabled) in various positions in the organization.
- Provide good conditions of work and social protection.
- Promote and maintain health and safety at the workplace.
- Provide skills development and career training opportunities.
- Ensure fundamental principles and rights at work.
- Employment and Employment relationships.
The Sustainability Policy
Defines commitments to environmental and social sustainability.
ISO 26000 Standards
Our Corporate Sustainability & Social Impact department has adopted the seven core subjects of the ISO26000 Corporate Responsibility Standard.
We are an equal opportunity employer; we have none of the dividing lines of ethnic origin, creed or gender.
Employed Persons in the Haggar Group understand their role and responsibilities as members of a team and the family; we work together for the common good of each and every member, and the family at large.
To achieve this, we bind ourselves to a code of conduct, which determines the way in which we conduct our business and how we treat each other. We regard this as a formula for success.
Anis G. Haggar, Chairman
OUR COMMUNITY
Community involvement and community development are both integral parts of sustainable development. Issues of community development to which an organization can contribute include creating employment through expanding and diversifying economic activities and technological development.
Haggar Group also contributes through social investments in wealth and income creation through local economic development initiatives; expands education and skills development programmes that promote and preserve culture and arts as
well as provide and/or promote community health services. Community development may include institutional strengthening of the community through cultural, social and environmental programmes and local networking activities.
community involvement & development projects
These programmes focus mainly on:
Supporting education at all levels; engaging in actions to improve educational quality
Supporting access to essential health care services, to clean water and appropriate sanitation
Supporting capacity building and income generation activities to all vulnerable groups
Making positive social, economic and environmental interventions to vulnerable communities when needed
model of implementation adopted
The approach used involved annual grants to development projects in pre-determined sectors with a relatively significant contribution given to each project. Recently, a shift has been made to fund small-scale interventions with significantly higher impact on vulnerable groups, focusing on the most marginalized and on more sustainable activities. It has been clearly observed that small-scale projects are very fast in implementation and much easier to monitor and evaluate.
This approach also enables the company to become a more involved donor, ensuring a higher impact on target beneficiaries. This approach has yielded the following benefits:
Identification of projects became more efficient with the majority of the projects being identified by the beneficiaries themselves.
Identification of projects became more efficient with the majority of the projects being identified by the beneficiaries themselves.
Resources have been efficiently allocated with over 90% of funds directly serving target beneficiaries rather than the implementing partner.
Resources have been efficiently allocated with over 90% of funds directly serving target beneficiaries rather than the implementing partner.
Allowed for a continuous improvement process through a higher level of involvement of the CSI team and a stronger engagement with partners.
Allowed for a continuous improvement process through a higher level of involvement of the CSI team and a stronger engagement with partners.
