Esom Global Women Investigators, LLC
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Investigations Work: Remote and On-site Investigations
At Esom Global Women Investigators, LLC. we offer both off-site (remote) and on-site investigation services that include field visits to our clients’ locations when requested. Our areas of investigations include but are not limited to:
- Fraud and corruption
- Prohibited practices (fraudulent, corrupt, collusive, coercive and obstructive)
- Harassment
- Sexual harassment
- Sexual exploitation and abuse
- Sexual violence and assaults
- Abuse of authority
- Discrimination
- Theft
- Embezzlement
- Conflict of interest
- Medical fraud
- Entitlement fraud
- Misrepresentation and forgery
- Retaliation
We work with complaint review mechanisms of governments and International Organizations to conduct investigations into allegations of non-compliance to organization's own environmental safeguards in projects and emergency disasters. This includes investigations of other social breaches such as sexual exploitation and abuse, retaliation, gender-based violence and discrimination. We assist organizations in developing risk tools to mitigate and prevent such harmful acts from occurring. Click here
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Preventative Programs and Policy Work
Our practice focuses on providing ways to prevent corrupt and unethical acts before they occur, to save our clients' resources and reputations in the investigation areas we support. Specifically, we assist clients with setting up effective and tailor-made internal processes, prevention and policy programs in the following areas:
- Anti-fraud and Anti-corruption
- Ethics and Compliance
- Ombudsman, Mediation and Conflict Resolution
- Social Safeguards and Complaint Review Mechanisms
- Whistleblowing and Complaint Handling Mechanisms
- Retaliation
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Anti-Money laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism
- Sanctions and Debarment
- Negotiation and recovery of stolen/illicit funds
- Integrity Risks in Programs, Grants and Project Management
- Developing Procurement Red Flags
Enterprise Risk Management, Ethics and Compliance
• Develop risk management frameworks and operations, complete with reports and analysis.
• Develop checklists, red flags, and integrity risk tools to prevent fraud and corruption, money laundering and terrorism financing.
• Develop new policies, perform policy audit and database of regulations, rules and internal policies to mainstream compliance.
• Review existing policies and recommend changes based on best practices.
• Set up the Ethics function and establish a conflict of interest and financial disclosure programs.
• Develop and deliver training programs on a wide range of ethics topics including an introduction to ethics, gifts, outside activities, dual employment, sexual harassment, harassment, abuse of authority, etc.
• Train ethics and compliance focal points on how to investigate ethics violations and staff misconduct.
Anti-Fraud and Anti-Corruption
• Review investigation strategies, guidelines, and anti-fraud and anti-corruption internal policies and proffer solutions on improvement based on best practices.
• Establish investigations and integrity functions to include basic needs of logistics, human resources, budgets, policies, forensics, case management systems, action plans, and strategies for implementation.
• Develop investigation and integrity trainings that include programs to prevent the occurrence of fraud and corruption in organizational settings and projects.
Whistleblowing, Complaint Handling Policy and Retaliation
• Develop whistleblowing and complaint handling policies, rules, and procedures including retaliation components and how to investigate retaliation and disclosure of whistleblower identity cases.
• Review whistleblowing and retaliation policies and recommend changes based on best practices.
• Review beneficiary complaint mechanisms for humanitarian field operations and advise on ways of improving reporting without fear of retaliation.
Proactive Due Diligence Programs in Cash-Based Transfers and Projects
• We deliver services on cash-based transfers (CBTs) that include a review of existing policies, programs, and visits to distribution centers to witness modalities and identify gaps and measures to improve beneficiary and shop providers’ relationships.
• Develop checklists on consumer rights, abuse of power by Financial Service Provider (FSP) agents, fraud in ration card sales.
• Assist organizations in developing and delivering training programs for their field experts.
• Support in renegotiating FSP contracts to include measures to hold agents accountable for improved services and assurances in CBTs.
• Develop checklists on prevention of fraud and corruption in areas of food distribution, food theft, warehouse management, transportation, and delivery of food items including verification exercises in early warning, assessment and registration of IDPs and refugees to prevent incidents of inflated number of ghost beneficiaries and relocation.
• Develop integrity tools that identify abuse of power, retaliation against beneficiaries and whistleblowers and internal processes for successful beneficiary complaint mechanisms in IDP and Refugee camps.
• We also provide services to Individuals, NGOs, or Organizations in writing and reviewing Grant Proposals, and checklists on grant compliance requirements by donors.
• Assist clients prepare organizational strategic papers, donor relations reports and annual reports.
• Organize governmental, bi-lateral and intra-agency relationships or partnerships to jointly address integrity issues in CBTs, fraud and corruption, investigations, gender-based violence, sexual exploitation and abuse, field security risks, etc.
International Consulting: Working with International Organizations
Subjects Facing Investigations
• With our in-depth knowledge of International Organizations investigations functions and internal justice systems, we help in breaking down and simplifying the contents of the Notification of Allegations served on subjects of investigation.
• We help our clients fully understand their relevant institutions’ applicable rules, due process rights, the administrative tribunals’ legal precedents related to their cases, and how investigations, suspensions, resignations and disciplinary processes work during investigations.
• We also support individuals or organizations accused of sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, and other sexual offenses, through guidance on how to respond to the general Allegations or Notification of Allegations or charges.
Persons Filing Complaints
• We assist victims of sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence within the workplace who wish to file complaints; we educate them on available resources for seeking redress and assist with preparing their sexual harassment incidents based on timelines and in a logical manner for filing a complaint.
Interview Preparation for Subjects and Complainants
• We provide assistance to Defendants or Subjects, particularly those facing any form of disciplinary proceedings or served with Notice of Allegations (NOA), on how to respond to the stated allegations or charges brought against them and prepare them on how to defend their cases before investigators through the delivery of mock Subject interviews.
• We assist them on what to expect during their meetings with investigators, law enforcement agencies, law firms, or anti-corruption agencies investigating their cases, and how to prepare for staff appeals and/or administrative tribunals, as well as their staff obligations, including how to manage expectations and outcomes of investigations.
• We equally provide assistance to complainants and witnesses with documenting and filing their complaints based on coherent timelines and chronology of incidents, and how to present the details before investigators or panels, attorneys, or law enforcement agencies.
Entities Sanctioned by International Organizations
• Our services also cover legal and technical advice to companies bidding on procurement contracts with International Organizations and facing sanctions and debarment for alleged fraud and corruption and non-compliance to rules. We help companies institute integrity and compliance programs, and voluntary disclosure programs in their organizations in conformity to procedures for reinstatement, including leading the companies through Negotiated Resolution Settlements to avoid debarments, or qualify for lesser punishments. We also represent governments or entities to assist with negotiations and repatriation of stolen or illicit funds.
Specialized Work on Sexual Harassment, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, and Sexual Violence
• We offer advisory and technical services to our clients who are victims, complainants, or defendants in Sexual Harassment, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA), and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) cases that include:
• Partner with institutions, governments, INGOs and International organizations in responding to SEA through conduct of investigations and prevention strategic plans.
• Develop organizational sensitization, awareness and outreach programs to prevent SEA including preparing surveys and collating answers, FAQs and handling complaint mechanisms.
• Develop new PSEA and sexual harassment policies including review and revision of existing policies, standard operating procedures that are victim-based, and meet with the UN and international standards.
• Provide specialized training packages for all category of employees including top management, board and country projects; train focal points as SEA and Sexual Harassment Intake Specialists, and on how to conduct impartial and confidential investigations and professional interviews.
• Assist victims in preparing clear and concise complaints including compliance to reporting and guidance on seeking help from government agencies, law offices and NGOs.
• Organize professional events to discuss impact and investigations aspects of SEA and Sexual Harassment.
• Participate in speaking activities and advocate for prevention measures on sexual violence, sexual harassment and SEA.
Training and Research Work
Training
• We offer training programs on investigation basics, strategies and approaches; how to conduct successful interviews with complainants, subjects and witnesses, preparing subject notifications and conducting specialized interviews with them.
• We also provide training on due process rights in investigations, standards of conduct required of investigators, legal aspects of investigations relating to Administrative Tribunal judgments and precedents, and identifying applicable rules for investigations. We organize investigations and other related professional events, outreach and speaking activities on behalf of our clients, aimed at creating sensitization and awareness in their organizations regarding the issues we specialize in.
Research
• We initiate and/or collaborate with organizations to conduct research, study and fieldwork on fraud and corruption, harassment, sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, and sexual violence, etc, and to document the correlation between these offenses.
• We lead or support organizations in writing reports of findings from researches and studies, to update statistical data for educating the public on results, and the impact of corruption and sexual assaults on communities and economic progress, including ways of using results to influence policies, laws and good governance.
Esom Global Women Investigators, LLC
moving sideways to innovations