Al Jisr Foundation in UN Global Compact

Times News Service

MUSCAT: The Al Jisr Foundation in Oman has become the country’s first non-profit organisation to sign the United Nations Global Compact.

In doing so, the charitable foundation joins more than 12,000 organisations worldwide in furthering the Global Compact’s ten principles of responsible governance and ethics encompassing human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption.

The UN Global Compact is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world. Signatories include a wide range of organisations among which are corporates such as Lego, Microsoft, Sabic; smaller, non-profit organisations such as Injaz, the King Khaled Foundation besides signatories on the municipal level, such as the city of Dubai.

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman, UN Global Compact Foundation, said: “I congratulate the Al Jisr Foundation on becoming the first non-profit organisation in Oman to sign the UN Global Compact. Its leadership is to be commended for this sincere public commitment to practise and promote these essential principles for organisational excellence.”

Al Jisr Foundation Director Sultan Al Busaidi said: “As a Zakat foundation, Islamic values and principles are at the heart of everything we do. Recognizing the compatibility between Islamic values and the more general values which underpin the UN Global Compact, and indeed the Global Goals, we are shaping our strategy and initiatives in a way that will help us consistently achieve both.”