Who we work with
Founded in the early 1990’s, Governance & Integrity offers over 30 years of experience to assist Aotearoa with its integrity challenges. We have worked with a variety of sectors on a wide range of integrity issues around the world. These are some examples of the sectors we have assisted and what we have helped them with:
- Central, regional and local government to strengthen the integrity of their elected members and public servants as well as their institutional practice. We focus on compliance to code of conduct as well as installing moral learning processes. We also support these organisations with specific challenges within procurement and conflicts of interest.
- Family violence and child safety institutions in both the Netherlands and in Belgium, to strengthen the integrity of those institutions and to avoid moral injury to staff.
- State care institutions to ensure staff and offenders or patients are treated justly whilst in care of the state.
- Civil society sector (including their international networks and partners) to strengthen their role within democratic processes. We have offered training courses and advice on improving their own integrity system. This is documented in ‘The Integrity system guide’ which has been used internationally including by BRAC.
- Universities to build better reporting systems to combat sexual violence and power abuse, as well as supporting structured consideration of topics of scientific integrity.
- Police to help address integrity issues such as institutional sexism and racism within the police force.
- Crisis personnel to avoid moral injury caused by crisis, such as decisions made by Dutch military personnel during combat, Dutch health care workers during the height of the COVID epidemic, and aid workers during the refugee crisis.
- Customs service to combat drug smuggling in the Caribbean islands.
Besides bringing our experience to Aotearoa, we also aim to bring insights from Aotearoa’s unique culture and values to our international practice. By doing this we aim to progress international understanding of how in practice organisations and societies can ensure they act in accordance with justice, consistently and even when or especially when the going gets tough.
