Governance

Plan Vivo is the organisation that governs the Plan Vivo system and assesses projects against Plan Vivo's Standards.

Plan Vivo is comprised of several groups working in unison. These governance groups include the Board of Trustees, Secretariat and Technical Review Panel (TRP) and Technical Advisory Committee (TAC).

To view the detailed composition of these groups, please see the visit the 'our team' section of our website: Our Team and in the below Organigram:

Plan Vivo follows a decision-making process that categorises decisions into high and low impact decisions. Where decisions are low impact, they are usually made within the Plan Vivo Secretariat with sign-off from senior management. 

Key strategic decisions are reviewed and signed off by the Board of Trustees at quarterly board meetings, whereas decisions based on the technical development of Standards are taken together by the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and the Plan Vivo Secretariat. 

There is also a decision-making process for complex decisions that fall within the remit of the Plan Vivo Secretariat.

Plan Vivo's decision making processes are clearly laid out in our Governance and Decision Making Policy:

Plan Vivo has a Conflict of Interest policy which board members, programme staff and management need to agree to before taking up their posts. The policy has robust procedures in place to prevent financial, commercial or fiduciary conflicts of interest.

The Conflict of Interest policy puts procedures in place how these types of conflicts will be identified, declared and addressed. For more information, please see our Conflict of Interest Policy: 

Plan Vivo has an anti-money laundering policy in place that extends to all programme staff, leadership staff and trustees. 

Plan Vivo has a fair and transparent Grievance Mechanism that is open to all stakeholders. If you have a complaint to make against Plan Vivo (a member of staff, Board of Trustees, Technical Advisory Committee, Technical Review Panel, or Independent Experts) or a certified Project, the Grievance Mechanism provides details on how to submit a grievance and how it is handled.

Plan Vivo collects, uses, discloses, and safeguards your information in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA), and other applicable data protection laws. For details, please see the Plan Vivo Privacy Policy.