Kore Global Organizational Updates
Kore Global is a feminist, women-led and owned social enterprise dedicated to gender equality and social inclusion. We work in partnership with those who share our vision, and are committed to dismantling systems of oppression and accelerating positive social change. Our mission is to transform the sector, by providing development decision-makers with the intersectional feminist inspiration, ideas, and tools they need to drive transformative change in the lives of the diverse groups they work with and serve.
Kore Global has made a number of changes recently to strengthen our commitment to gender equality, safeguarding, and wellbeing, to build a supportive team culture and to better achieve justice and fairness for marginalized groups.
UN Women’s Empowerment Principles
Kore Global has signed the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEP). The WEPs provide a framework to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace and community and drive positive outcomes for society and business. We have joined a global network of companies with similar values and encourage other organizations to join and make a public statement of commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment on a global platform.
Kore Global has strengthened our commitment to safeguarding by registering with the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS). We have joined over 190 other implementing organizations worldwide that are taking additional steps to stop perpetrators of sexual misconduct from moving between organizations undetected. We encourage other organizations in the sector to register with MDS and commit to requesting and responding to requests regarding sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and sexual harassment.
Kore Global is proud to be Certified as a Living Wage Employer for Families in BC. On average, women and girls in Vancouver have lower incomes, less housing security, more unpaid work and experience greater rates of poverty and gender-based violence than men and boys. We encourage other organizations to become Certified and promote the living wage as thousands of families in BC who are making the minimum wage are still living below the poverty line.
4-Day Week
Since Kore Global hired their first employees in September 2022 we have been practicing a 4-day work week for full pay. After a 6-month pilot, we determined that due to overwhelmingly positive results, we would be continuing with a 4-day work week on an ongoing basis and that it would no longer be a pilot. A 4-day work week is proven to increase wellbeing by reducing burnout and improving work/life balance. Find out more here. Kore Global does not reduce pay for a 4-day week, rather, we have recently reviewed and increased our compensation and benefits to be more competitive in the Vancouver job market.
Intersectional Feminist Principles
Kore Global has reviewed and updated our intersectional feminist principles and behaviours which guide the way that we work. We have also integrated these principles into both our employee performance reviews and project close-out processes. Doing so enables us to recognize and reward our staff based on their understanding and upholding our feminist principles as well as evaluating and learning from how well we put our feminist principles into practice in our projects. We recognize that we aren’t perfect and are constantly learning how to do better, but this has kept us accountable to each other and ourselves.
