This helps to protect the company, it’s share holders, employees and partners. Any act of corruption may commit the reputation of the company and may jeopardize its future.
The Orange’s Anti-corruption is based on six (6) pillars approach:
Every year, the EXCOM and Senior Management of Orange SL reaffirm its commitment in the fight against corruption.
Orange SL’s compliance function have different committees set up to check on compliance activities ( Ethics & Compliance Committee and Compliance Network Committee), to check on investments (Finance Committee), to assess business risk (Risk Committee). These committees comprises of selected EXCOM members and employees based on recommendation or job function and these committees are been headed by the CEO
This indicates the methodology used for analyzing activities at risk of corruption, checking on the risk levels of employees, partners, stakeholders and ways as to how to mitigate these risks.
Orange Sierra Leone have set policies and procedures like; Whistleblowing Policy, Gifts & Entertainment Policy, Anti-corruption Policy, Conflicts of Interest policy and the Due Diligence procedure which guides employees, partners and stakeholders on the running of the business.
Raising awareness and trainings are essential tools for preventing and fighting corruption, therefore trainings in the form of E-Learning for staff, adhoc trainings upon request for staff and trainings for external partners are conducted yearly to ensure employees, partners and stakeholders act in line with our policies and procedures.
Controls are put in place to ensure our process and procedures are followed plus monitoring and closure of all audit points.