Parvana Strategic Sourcing

• Comply with relevant existing environmental legislation.
• Reduce the consumption of resources (Energy and water used in operating our premises) and increase the efficiency of use of these resources in the buildings we occupy.
• Promote awareness amongst our staff of the environmental impact of travel and encourage the use of relevant technology to reduce the need for travel.
• Endeavour to recycle waste, in particular paper, produced in buildings where we have control of the relevant services. In buildings that are controlled by others, we will engage with landlords, or their agents, to ensure standards are achieved where possible.
• Give due consideration to environmental issues in the acquisition, design and location of buildings
• Ensure environmental criteria are taken into account in the procurement of goods and services as part of our commitment towards corporate responsibility in the supply chain.
• Strive to continuously improve our environmental performance.

• Review our environmental policy on an annual basis, to take account of developments in environmental legislation and management and legislation, as well as the requirements and expectations of our clients and others with whom we do business.
• Set and monitor key objectives and targets of our environmental performance at least annually.
• Encourage proposed and existing suppliers to investigate and introduce environmentally responsible processes and products, and ensure that consideration is given to the cost and benefits of environmentally responsible alternatives.
• Ensure that suppliers' environmental credentials are considered in the supplier appraisal process and that, where appropriate, environmental criteria are used in the award of contracts.
• Communicate internally and externally our environmental policy and performance on an annual basis.
• Communicate the importance of environmental issues to our partners and staff, and encourage feedback regarding our environmental issues and concerns.
• Promote awareness amongst our people of environmental initiatives that the firm and they, as individuals, can become involved with.
• Encourage appropriate consideration of environmental issues in the professional services we provide to our clients.

Recruitment agents need not have a negative impact on the environment. Instead there are many ways that our business can make a positive impact on the environment.
Rather than just promising a an elegant policy like the above we require specific evidence of this positive environmental impact. It is our belief that many actions, each with a small positive impact together makes for a large positive impact

• In dealing with our customers and suppliers we promote the use of telecoms, video conferencing, email etc. over carbon-negative air or ground travel. In some cases air travel is essential but we firmly believe that a substantial amount of air travel could be avoided or combined with other travel.
• Work from home - In large urbanised cities, commuting is often necessary

• Use of low energy light bulbs
• Ensuring lights are switched off when offices are closed
• Ensuring that PC's, screens, printers etc. are shutdown and switched off at the end of the day
• Occupying appropriate buildings that require little or no heating in winter and cooling in summer

• Use of non-potable, borehole water for purposes other than drinking
• Planting of indigenous vegetation
• Planting of indigenous vegetation

• Use of electronic documents (invoices, CVs, proposals etc. as much as possible. Even contract documents requiring signatures can executed via electronic signatures)
• Where paper must be used every effort must be made to:
  • Reduce the quantity printed
  • Reduce the quantity printed
  • Donate used paper to schools