GOAL is committed to maintaining the highest levels of good governance across our organisation and in our humanitarian programmes. We prioritise accountability with all our stakeholders, particularly the communities, donors and partners that we work with.
Workplace integrity
Authentic workplace integrity - where a strong moral character lies at the core is by definition a whole and ongoing organisational effort. It goes beyond transparency and accountability and includes compliance with the law and organisational standards, as well as with universal ethical principles, i.e. respect, fairness and honesty and applying these ethical norms in our professional context.
GOAL has a range of policies, procedures and systems that comprise our Workplace Integrity Framework and compliment and support our cultural commitment to accountability and integrity. The framework incorporates core policies including the Code of Conduct, Child Protection Policy, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Policy, Whistleblowing Policy, Anti-Fraud Policy, Conflict of Interest Policy and internal controls and management systems that which empower and guide all internal stakeholders.
For more information on this area, please contact info@goal.ie
Key GOAL Organisational Policies
GOAL has in place a wide range of policies that set out our approach, expectations and ways for working across key areas of of our organisation and work.
For more information on our policies or to access them in different languages, please contact info@goal.ie
Legal, regulatory and statutory commitments
GOAL is registered with the Charities Regulatory Authority in Ireland, the Fundraising Regulator in the UK and is a registered 501(c)(3) organisation in the USA. In addition to this, GOAL has achieved ‘Triple Lock’ standard, as confirmed by Charities Institute Ireland. This confirms GOAL’s governance across three key areas:
Where donations and funding go
Last year, GOAL invested €163 million in our work supporting communities across 14 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
We reached more than six million people through our emergency response, nutrition, health, and livelihood focus areas. We remain committed to delivering community-focused, sustainable and transformative change where it is needed most.
Our commitment to you
To demonstrate our commitment to openness, transparency and integrity to donors and beneficiaries, GOAL adheres to the 'Triple Lock' standards (transparent reporting, good fundraising and governance), as published by the Charities Institute Ireland.

GOAL 2021 Annual Report
2021 was a year of progress and impact for GOAL
2021 was the final year of GOAL's three year organisational strategy - Alliance, Ambition, Action. It was a year of significant progress organisationally and programmatically. It was also another year disrupted by Covid-19 globally. GOAL teams continued to adapt their way of working to respond to the pandemic while continuing to support beneficiaries with life saving support and long-term development programmes.
Our humanitarian and development programmes reached 18.5 million people worldwide, across Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. The range of interventions is myriad and the challenges faced complex, but the common threads across all of our work is a deep rooted dedication to supporting vulnerable communities by GOAL teams who are courageous, compassionate and committed.
This impact is only possible through the ongoing relationships with our supporters, donors and partners around the world who are similarly dedicated to a vision of a world free of poverty, crisis and inequality.