To our Shareholders,

I am delighted openly reconfirm Al Ajmi Engineering Consultants’ commitment towards the UN’s Global Compact initiative and its continued commitment to embrace and act on the UN’s Global Compact “10 Principles” in the areas of Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption.

In this annual Communication on Progress, we elaborate on how we incorporated the Global Compact’s principles, that we said we would meet in the last COP submitted, into our policies, philosophy and daily operations.

We bind ourselves to continually to share this information with all our shareholders through any means of communication required.

Yours Sincerely,

Wassim Adlouni
CEO

We consider the United Nation's Declaration of Human Rights as a standard of achievement at Al Ajmi Engineering Consultants (AEC) and accordingly such rights remain maintained in our company at all levels.

As proof of our commitment in applying the Human Rights policies as expressed in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, we applied a policy dedicated for Human Rights and have accordingly upheld and acted upon.

To ensure that no one in our company breaches any of the human rights policies, we keep modifying our strict program of monitoring which is part of our ISO Certification, hence, that allows any information or action to be passed on through different levels of the company for approval from its relevant senior.

Any violation would be exposed at the level once undertaken.

At AEC we are keen in giving all employees the rights without prejudice, regardless of ones’ background.

As proof of our commitment to providing proper labour rights, our employees have access to their rights as soon as they are employed, furthermore, we have taken measures by including a section dealing with labour rights in our policies and standards. Such policy remains in effect and upheld in our company.

This works while applying the ISO methods exposing any violation easily.

Any breach of any rights and policies would be dealt immediately following investigating the incident.

Environmental protection is greatly maintained in our company. Accordingly a section dedicated towards the environment was implemented in our policies and the same standards remains upheld.

Employees are always encouraged to conduct their correspondences as much as possible electronically and accordingly clients and companies we deal with are encouraged to do the same.

All levels in the company have different monitoring criteria. On the administration level, going paperless is the main goal and accordingly by checking relevance of printing. A printing quota and monitoring is set in place.

At AEC we strive to control corruption at all times especially in the organization. The positive feedback and reputation we get in the market is the thing that separates us from our competition.

We dedicated a section that deals with anti-corruption that is implemented in our company to deal with bribery, perjury and all other forms of corruption possible in our industry.

A regular auditing across all levels of the company by random checking as well as a yearly external audit ensures all our actions comply with the policies set forth by our company. Our track record proves our commitment by having a clean history of dealings.