Communication on Progress

Viva Fresh Communication on Progress

Participant
Published
  • 03-May-2021
Time period
  • January 2020  –  April 2021
Format
  • Stand alone document – Basic COP Template
Differentiation Level
Self-assessment
  • Includes a CEO statement of continued support for the UN Global Compact and its ten principles
  • Description of actions or relevant policies related to Human Rights
  • Description of actions or relevant policies related to Labour
  • Description of actions or relevant policies related to Environment
  • Description of actions or relevant policies related to Anti-Corruption
  • Includes a measurement of outcomes
 
  • Statement of continued support by the Chief Executive Officer

  • Statement of the company's chief executive (CEO or equivalent) expressing continued support for the Global Compact and renewing the company's ongoing commitment to the initiative and its principles.

  • 5/3/21

    To our stakeholders,

    I am pleased to confirm that Viva Fresh reaffirms its support of the Ten Principles of the United Nations
    Global Compact in the areas of Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption.
    In this annual Communication on Progress, we describe our actions to continually improve the integration of the
    Global Compact and its principles into our business strategy, culture and daily operations. We also commit to sharing
    this information with our stakeholders using our primary channels of communication.

    Sincerely yours,
    Korab Hoxha
    DCEO

Human Rights
  • Assessment, policy and goals

  • Description of the relevance of human rights for the company (i.e. human rights risk-assessment). Description of policies, public commitments and company goals on Human Rights.

  • The Council for the Defence of Human Rights and Freedoms - CDHRF is active in Republic of Kosovo and prepare yearly report. Since now we didn't have any topic regarding violation of human rights, but since the company is growing fast, we have start creating the procedures referring to international standards.

  • Implementation

  • Description of concrete actions to implement Human Rights policies, address Human Rights risks and respond to Human Rights violations.

  • No answer provided.
  • Measurement of outcomes

  • Description of how the company monitors and evaluates performance.

  • No answer provided.
Labour
  • Assessment, policy and goals

  • Description of the relevance of labour rights for the company (i.e. labour rights-related risks and opportunities). Description of written policies, public commitments and company goals on labour rights.

  • The new project with IFC is focus in this topic and we are aiming to prepare concrete documents and procedures by June 2021.

  • Implementation

  • Description of concrete actions taken by the company to implement labour policies, address labour risks and respond to labour violations.

  • Our company is fulfilling all the law requirements to implement labour policies, labour risks and labour violations, but in additional we have establish the following opportunities of staff to report such topics if any of them happened in our company
    1. We have create a line of all employees to report all issues that are related with their job, including violations, risks and any unsupported policies from their manager
    2. We are upgrading our health and safety policies in cooperation with IFC experts
    3. We have negotiate very good conditions for health insurance, for all our employees
    4. We have create a policy for payment and job conditions based on position and not people. This reduce the possibility of discrimination on payment for comparable work
    5. All the terms and conditions of all the employees are in written form, in the contract
    6. Our company is part of Retail Network in Kosovo.
    7. Together with other companies and universities we are creating labour strategies of engagement.

  • Measurement of outcomes

  • Description of how the company monitors and evaluates performance.

  • Summary report describe the progress and evaluates the performance.

Environment
  • Assessment, policy and goals

  • Description of the relevance of environmental protection for the company (i.e. environmental risks and opportunities). Description of policies, public commitments and company goals on environmental protection.

  • Viva Fresh is one of leading company in Republic of Kosovo. In this term the company in 2021, start a new project for Environmental and Social components. We are planning to finalize this project by June 2022.

  • Implementation

  • Description of concrete actions to implement environmental policies, address environmental risks and respond to environmental incidents.

  • The implementation of the project will start in second half of 2021. In next COP update we will provide detailed information regarding the topic and also including the progress handled by Viva Fresh

  • Measurement of outcomes

  • Description of how the company monitors and evaluates environmental performance.

  • One of the company Aims is to reduce the global warming.

Anti-Corruption
  • Assessment, policy and goals

  • Description of the relevance of anti-corruption for the company (i.e. anti-corruption risk-assessment). Description of policies, public commitments and company goals on anti-corruption.

  • Viva Fresh currently is in the stage of harmonizing the company Anti Corruption procedures with international standards. From 2021 we have engaged the IFC experts to support us in this direction. The aim is to create long term Anti Corruption procedures in Viva Fresh.

  • Implementation

  • Description of concrete actions to implement anti-corruption policies, address anti-corruption risks and respond to incidents.

  • By the end of 2021 we will have concreate procedures how we will approach this sensitive issue.

  • Measurement of outcomes

  • Description of how the company monitors and evaluates anti-corruption performance.

  • All the monitors and evaluates anti-corruption performance will be described in Anti Corruption procedures