Veynuus Sustainability Report 2026
Veynuus's first Communication on Progress under the United Nations Global Compact, covering our commitments and actions across human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption for the reporting period 2025. Published April 2026.
What the evidence shows
A baseline, not a trend
The 2026 edition is Veynuus's first Communication on Progress and makes no year-on-year claims. It records where practice currently stands so that later reports have something honest to measure against.
Human rights exposure sits in the fieldwork
For an advisory firm, risk concentrates in research and communications assignments involving displaced people, students and households, not on its own premises. The report is organised around that fact.
Written terms for short-term staff
The labour section covers the decision to contract field personnel on the same documentary basis as permanent employees, in a market where verbal terms are common and short engagements often go uncontracted.
Environmental effect stated at actual scale
Office energy, travel, printing and equipment. The report declines to build a larger environmental narrative than the firm's operations can support.
Facilitation payments treated as an operating decision
The anti-corruption section addresses the counters at which an informal payment would move a file faster, the firm's refusal to make them, and the delay accepted as the cost.
Where the firm's controls are still thin
The report names the systems that currently rely on close supervision rather than formal internal audit, and the point at which growth will make that insufficient.
Veynuus became a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact on 10 April 2025. The Veynuus Sustainability Report 2026 is the firm's first Communication on Progress under that commitment. It covers the 2025 reporting period and was published in April 2026.
A Communication on Progress is the annual account a signatory owes the Compact and the public: what the Ten Principles mean inside its operations, what it did about them during the year, and where practice falls short of stated position. The report answers those questions rather than advertising the firm.
Veynuus is a young company and a small one, headquartered in Mogadishu and working across Somalia, Kenya, Nigeria and neighbouring markets. That limits what can honestly be claimed: a practice this size has no manufacturing footprint to decarbonise and no extended supplier base to audit. It also raises the standard of proof, since a firm this size either did the thing or did not. The report follows the Compact's four issue areas.
Human rights
An advisory firm's human rights exposure sits in its engagements, not on its own premises. Veynuus works on assignments involving displaced people, communities living with explosive remnants of war, and households answering an enumerator's questions. The people carrying the most risk there usually hold the least power in it. The report sets out how the firm treats consent as a live requirement rather than a form, and how it handles the expectation gap in a community surveyed before to no visible effect.
The second element is assignment selection: the point at which the firm declines work. The report is candid that this remains a judgement made case by case rather than a documented screening process, and names it as unfinished.
Labour
Veynuus is female-founded and female-led, and the report treats that as a starting condition rather than an achievement to cite. What it examines is the practice underneath: written terms for every member of staff, the same standard of contract for short-term field personnel as for permanent employees, and payment schedules that do not push a client's slow settlement onto an enumerator who has already worked a fortnight.
The labour market the firm recruits from gives an employer considerable informal latitude: hiring runs through personal networks, and short research engagements frequently carry no contract at all. The report explains why the firm writes everything down anyway, and covers recruitment, freedom of association and forced and child labour.
Environment
This is where a small advisory firm has to resist overstatement. Veynuus manufactures nothing. Its direct environmental effect comes from office energy, travel between Mogadishu and assignment locations, printing, and equipment it buys and disposes of. The report says so plainly rather than assembling a larger story around it.
What it then describes is the practical side of operating responsibly where grid electricity is unreliable and generator power is the default: how equipment is procured and how long it is kept, why deliverables moved to digital formats wherever clients accept them, and how field logistics are planned so a vehicle movement serves more than one purpose.
Anti-corruption
This section carries the most weight, because it is where the operating environment presses hardest. Facilitation payments are a practical question here, not an abstract one. Registration, tax clearance, permits, customs and procurement each involve a counter at which an informal payment would move a file faster.
The report sets out the firm's position: it does not make such payments, a slower file is the accepted cost, and staff are not left to defend that alone at the counter. It describes how procurement decisions are documented, how conflicts of interest are declared, and how gifts are treated. It is honest that a firm this size depends more on close supervision than on internal audit.
What a first report can and cannot say
The 2026 edition is a baseline. It records commitments, describes the systems that exist, states where systems do not, and claims no trend, because a first report has nothing to measure against. An honest baseline was judged more useful than a better-reading account.
The instrument underneath most of it is the Veynuus Integrated Ethical, Environmental and Workforce Responsibility Policy, adopted in March 2025, which converts the Ten Principles into standards attached to specific decisions. Later editions will report against this one.