UfU Information | Issue 9 – July 2023 | UfU Total
Transparent civil society
UfU is a partner of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative
As a critically-minded NGO, we are used to being viewed critically and scrutinized ourselves. And that’s a good thing. Because where people work, mistakes happen. Are our actions still in keeping with the times? Are we in danger of missing out on social change? Do we tend to think in silos? In our work with international partners in particular, it is extremely important that we constantly question ourselves. At the same time, we must lead by example.
In order to live up to our responsibility, we create transparency as far as possible. All our projects are open to the public, we list all the people who work for us and our annual report and the accompanying profit and loss account show what funds we receive and from where.
In order to make our transparency requirements binding, we are now an official signatory of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative. As a signatory, we must provide information on 10 important criteria of our association (to be seen on our website under Transparency) at any time. We can be audited by the initiative at any time and update the data regularly. At a time when civil organizations are increasingly under attack on the one hand and there are more and more organizations whose actual goal is not apparent at first glance on the other, we are attacking forwards: creating trust and transparency.