An achievement that enhances the competitive standing of charitable work in the UAE Fujairah Charity obtains the Governance Certificate from the British Standards Institution BSI In a new achievement that enhances its leadership in applying the best global standards in the field of institutional governance management systems, Fujairah Charity Association obtained the governance standard certificate ISO 37000:2021 from the British Standards Institution BSI, after successfully applying the governance model based on trust, accountability, transparency and fair practices. The Association obtained the standard following comprehensive audits conducted by a team of international experts and assessors from the British Standards Institution BSI to ensure that the Association's operations conform to governance standards. H.E. Saeed Al Raqbani, Chairman of the Board of Directors, received the certificate at the headquarters of Fujairah Charity Association from Mr. Vladimir Cherny, General Manager of the British Standards Institution for the India and Middle East region, in the presence of the Board Members, Yousef Al Marshoudi, Director General of the Association, and Ammar Hassan, Business Development Manager at the British Standards Institution. H.E. Saeed Al Raqbani extended his highest thanks and gratitude to H.H. Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Fujairah, and H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah, for their continuous material and moral support for the Association's activities and its charitable and humanitarian programmes. H.E. Saeed Al Raqbani congratulated the Board Members, the executive management and the Association's staff on this distinguished achievement within the journey of excellence and continuous institutional development that the Association adopts in line with the highest global standards, which comes as a result of fruitful efforts and as confirmation of the efficiency of the Association's performance and its aspiration to enhance its achievements in serving developmental charitable work, through developing institutional performance and strengthening the concept of governance in charitable work to raise the level of services and ensure their sustainability, in addition to improving the quality of services provided to stakeholders, including beneficiaries, donors and employees, applying governance standards, highlighting the role of legislation and laws in strengthening governance in the management of charitable work, and using appropriate tools to measure the performance and governance of all the Association's sections and departments, within an institutional framework governed by quality. For his part, Mr. Vladimir Cherny congratulated the management of Fujairah Charity Association on the efforts made, praised the distinguished achievement and said: “We are pleased to work with “Fujairah Charity Association” in its adoption of global standards in the management of charitable work, and in particular its adoption of the world-leading institutional governance model, as the first charitable organisation in the UAE, the Arab Gulf states and the Middle East to obtain the governance standards certificate ISO 37000:2021 from the British Standards Institution BSI. He affirmed that when institutions are keen to keep their goals of serving sustainable development in mind, they have the opportunity to play a key role in helping to accelerate towards a just society and a more sustainable world. He added: BSI would like to congratulate Fujairah Charity Association on obtaining the international governance standards certificate ISO 37000. We are also pleased to congratulate “the Chairman and Members of the Board of Directors of the Association and all the staff” on this achievement, and we look forward eagerly to working with the Association on future projects and supporting it to achieve its pioneering goals in developmental charitable work”.
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