PRINCIPLE OF ETHICAL PROCUREMENT

At this regards Partners may refer to ILO definition of child labour, as follows: work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development. It refers to work that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children, and interferes with their schooling, by depriving them of the opportunity to attend school, obliging them to leave school prematurely, or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.
For more information partner can refer to the ILO website

Procurement contracts should seek to support and encourage freedom of association and decent working conditions in the workplace and actively seek to avoid relationships with contractors that engage, bondage or forced labour, practice discrimination in the work-place or curtail the rights of freedom of association, collective bargaining or to join trade unions. Furthermore, working conditions should protect more vulnerable workers from exploitation or abuse of sexual or other nature.

Before launching a procurement procedure, the partner should consider the effects on issues such as poverty eradication, human rights, fair-trade, sustainable development and inequality in the distribution of resources.

The partners should also consider the effects on the environment that the assets, supplies and/or services may have, including, where possible, to the effects of waste management (“green procurement”). When reasonably feasible, and depending on the nature of the supply, a criteria in the selection process could be included to verify the supplier’s environmental performance as well as the sustainability of the delivered products and solutions. Involvement in the unethical exploitation of natural resources such as previous metals, stones and rare earths should also be avoided.

• the avoidance by contractors of any connection with a party to a conflict,

• the avoidance of involvement in the supply or transport of illicit arms and/or land-mines,