Framework · Business conduct
Integrity, before the first contract.
Code of conduct, anti-corruption, human rights, supplier due diligence and a speak-up channel: the integrity base that financial institutions and development lenders expect. The rules that govern how EnerTchad does business — from formation, without exception.
01 · Code of conduct
Our code of conduct, in six commitments
Six simple rules, binding on everyone — executives, employees, interns and intermediaries — with no exceptions and no workarounds.
Business integrity
We only do business we could explain publicly: every contract has a real, documented consideration at market price.
Zero tolerance for corruption
No payment, gift or advantage to win or keep business, whether private or towards a public official — including so-called facilitation payments.
Gifts & hospitality
Modest, occasional, transparent: anything beyond the symbolic is declared and recorded in a register — given or received.
Conflicts of interest
Everyone declares situations where personal interest could cross the company’s: declaring is not a fault, concealing is.
Fair competition
No collusion, no market sharing, no denigration: we win on the offer, never on the arrangement.
Accurate books
Every entry reflects a real transaction: accurate books, records kept, no off-book accounts — the basis of investor and State confidence.
02 · Anti-corruption
The anti-corruption framework
A rule without a mechanism is a wish. Five mechanisms make zero tolerance effective, drawing on recognised international standards (OHADA, EITI, established anti-bribery frameworks).
Map the risks
Exposed situations — permits, customs, public procurement, local hiring — are identified and reviewed regularly: protect first where the risk is real.
Know your third parties
Prior screening of partners, agents and suppliers: beneficial ownership, reputation, sanctions. No contract with a third party we cannot name.
Record and trace
Gift and hospitality register, written rationale for sensitive decisions, four-eyes on payments: traceability makes fraud expensive.
Train and repeat
Everyone is trained on the rules at hiring and regularly after — with concrete Chadian cases, not abstract slides.
Sanction without exception
Any proven breach is sanctioned, whatever the rank. A rule enforced half the time is not a rule.
03 · Human rights
Human rights & working conditions
Our operations take place in inhabited territories. We refer to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
Decent work
No child labour, no forced labour — at our sites or our subcontractors’. Written contracts, wages paid on time, hours counted.
Health & safety
Nobody should get hurt for a barrel: equipment provided, right to stop work respected, incidents analysed without blame — see our HSE commitments.
Communities respected
Consultation before siting, written commitments, grievances handled: details on the Communities page.
Proportionate security
Site protection respects people’s rights: no disproportionate force, and security contractors are bound to the same rules by contract.
Non-discrimination
Hiring and promotion on merit: neither origin, gender nor affiliation enters the decision — and team diversity is a tracked objective.
04 · Suppliers
What we expect from suppliers and partners
Our value chain engages our responsibility. These expectations will be captured in a supplier charter annexed to contracts.
Compliance
Chadian law and OHADA rules respected, licences current, taxes in order: a partner’s compliance protects the whole chain.
Same ethical rules
Our anti-corruption and human-rights requirements extend to suppliers and their own subcontractors — an ethics clause will appear in every contract.
HSE aligned
EnerTchad’s safety and environmental standards apply on our sites to every intervening company, with no double standard.
Transparency
Beneficial ownership declared, subcontracting disclosed, justifiable prices: we do not work with opaque structures.
Real local content
At equal competence we favour Chadian companies and help them build capacity — local content is an award criterion, not a slogan.
05 · Speak-up channel
Reporting a concern
Anyone — employee, supplier, neighbour, third party — may report in good faith a breach of the rules on this page: corruption, fraud, harm to people or the environment, conflict of interest.
Two simple routes
In writing to contact@enertchad.com (subject “Ethics alert”) or via the contact form. A dedicated confidential channel will be set up with the corporate bodies.
Identity protected
Reports are handled by a small number of people; the reporter’s identity is not disclosed to the persons concerned.
No sanction for good-faith reports
Reporting honestly — even if the facts are not confirmed — exposes you to no adverse measure: any retaliation would itself be a breach.
Acknowledged, examined, answered
Every alert gets an acknowledgement, a documented review and an answer on the outcome, within a reasonable, stated timeframe.
See also: HSE-Q commitments · Communities · The Company · FAQ
Ethics · Security
Guarded sites, guarded rights.
Oil facilities in the Sahel will be protected — that is a reality, not a taboo. The Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPSHR), the sector’s reference, frame that protection so it never turns against the neighbouring communities.
Security and human-rights risk assessment site by site: actual threats, local context, history of tensions. The arrangement is sized to the risk — not to a show of force.
Every force, public or private, operating around our sites is briefed to the same rules: proportionate use of force, as a last resort, VPSHR clauses in every guarding contract, documented training.
Any security incident involving third parties is documented, reviewed and accessible to the community grievance mechanism: no report without a dated answer. Security is controlled like everything else: by the record.
Target reference VPSHR · company in formation — complements the code of conduct and the whistleblowing channel on this page.