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Values and Principles
Hobbs International has weighed the needs and aspirations of our employees, consultants, partners, clients, and the communities we work with to identify the values that guide our operations. We respect the environment and communities we serve, the hopes and ambitions of those we work for and who work for us, and the diversity of cultural experience throughout the world. We value excellence in our people and in the products we produce for our clients. We believe in accountability for the quality of our work and in transparency of our actions. We bring creativity to the table on all projects, resulting in innovative solutions. We place a premium on humanity – compassion for others guides our actions.
Hobbs International also values the importance of integrating cross-cultural understanding with social development goals. We have identified core principles we strongly believe essential for positive results:
Open Dialogue
Participatory Decision-making
Informed Consent
Social Justice
Environmental Integrity
Economic Empowerment
Benefit Sharing
Open dialogue is key to meaningful communication and provides opportunities for frank discussions and a free exchange of ideas, leading to mutual respect and understanding.
Participatory decision-making is a communication element crucial to good governance, which ensures transparency, accountability, equity, efficiency, and ultimately, sustainability.
Informed consent is achieved through participatory decision-making and is a result of a consultation process that enables persons to voluntarily decide whether or not to formally participate and agree to conditions set within legal frameworks, based principally on full disclosure of relevant information.
Social justice is a code that includes social, political, educational, legal, economic, and other human rights of people, and denotes that a person cannot be discriminated on the grounds of religion, sect, belief, gender, color, caste, wealth, or social status.
Environmental integrity encompasses key factors in preserving the health of the environment - protecting ecosystems and biodiversity by consuming resources conservatively and efficiently, prioritizing the use of renewable resources, maximizing environmentally sound practices, and restoring degraded environments to the extent possible.
Economic empowerment includes a wide array of interventions that serve to reduce poverty, including education and skills development, unemployment remedies, diversity initiatives, improved access to financing, and employment equity practices.
Benefit sharing consists of a number of mechanisms that ensure all affected groups directly benefit from project-related revenues and/or profits.
