By Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye The United Nations Development Program’s staff blundered when they characterized environmental risks related to Bidco as “ Moderate ” and indicated that Bidco was a strong candidate for membership in Business Call to Action BCtA , Part of the Social and Environment Compliance Unit SECU report, faults staff for pursuing limited due-diligence approach while engaging with Bidco. The UNDP form used while engaging Bidco for membership in Business Call to Action BCtA, contravened with the Risk Assessment Tool RAT directive to provide details for the criticism against the Candidate Company as well as obtaining public statement on how the candidate companies address the issues raised and how the same scenarios are prevented from reoccurring. Instead , the UNDP form used to asses Bidco, requested for limited disclosure but still some relevant risks were listed by the UNDP staff but they did not fol...
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