Funding Formula Stage 2

Q. What can undermine credibility?

Factors To Avoid

Donors do not want to see that your organisation is undertaking any of the following:

• working with and/or employing staff on the World Bank (or other) Sanctions List
• working with and/or employing staff on the consolidated lists of known terrorist organizations
• non-compliance with policies and procedures, especially:
  • the DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) child safety assessments and checks: criminal record checks undertaken for those staff who work with children or vulnerable adults
  • recruitment
  • grievances
  • dismissal
  • bullying/harassment
  • health and safety
  • whistleblowing
  • safeguarding
• paying high employee costs, especially high salaries for the highest earning staff
• ignoring health and safety and environmental safeguards
• not adhering to or implementing your Risk Register*
• attracting adverse publicity (or not dealing with it efficiently)
• pending lawsuits
• infringing human rights, or the perception of infringing human rights; lack of duty of care to staff or clients; or any human rights included in the general category of Health Care Compliance of Member Associations and Data Privacy and/or Protected Health Information
• funding individuals, political parties, religious organizations and/or lobbying: for many donors, this is not acceptable

 ^{*A Risk Register is a central repository for all risks identified by your organisation and, for each risk, includes information such as source, nature, treatment option, existing counter-measures, and recommended counter-measures and so on.}