As the world struggles to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, organisations in the aid sector are racing to respond to its impact and the new challenges and risks it brings. Some are delivering aid in new ways, engaging with communities remotely, developing online resources and mapping out new support pathways. Others are using their networks and structures to support efforts to tackle this social, economic and public health challenge.
As the crisis unfolds and the responses are developed, it is critical that the sector’s commitment to protect people from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Sexual Harassment is not only maintained, but scaled up. Evidence shows that the risks of SEAH tend to rise during emergencies, so aid agencies need to take even greater care and vigilance in preventing harm as a result of their operations.
We have developed this page to bring together emerging guidance, materials and resources to support the sector in responding to SEAH risks and issues in the Covid-19 context. Please help us by sharing any materials you have developed with us so that we can upload them here for onwards sharing with the sector. You can send them to veronica@rshub.org.uk.
This video gives guidance to safeguarding practitioners about child safeguarding during the COVID-19 pandemic. It covers the child safeguarding risks that can arise during pandemics, such as COVID-19…
DFID Guidance Note for DFID Staff and Implementing Partners: Safeguarding Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment (SEAH) across DFID Programmes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This UNICEF guide provides tips on protecting adolescents from increased online risks during COVID-19. The guide is aimed at adolescents and is accompanied by UNICEF's note for governments, ICT…
This guidance complements and expands on the Inter-Agency Guidance on Home Quarantine & Isolation in Overcrowded Settings to ensure that special consideration is given for children and adults who…
This briefing provides an overview of the main concerns that children and young people have been talking to Childline counsellors about during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). Gaining an insight…
This webinar delivered by the Gender Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) explores how to adapt GBV case management approaches during COVID-19.
This UNICEF technical note aims to protect children online during the COVID-19 lockdown when increased online activity puts children at greater risk of online harms such as sexual exploitation,…
- Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises
This guidance is designed to provide programmatic guidance for decision making on sexual and reproductive health, including maternal and newborn health services, in fragile and humanitarian settings…
- The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
This webinar, delivered by The Alliance of Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, explores how children in refugee contexts are at heightened risks of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence…
This research, based on existing published and grey literature, documents nine main pathways linking pandemics and Violence Against Women (VAW): 1) economic insecurity and poverty-related stress…
- The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
This webinar hosts a discussion on child protection in the context of COVID-19. It introduces the technical note, Protection of Children During COVID-19. Sara Lim Bertrand starts with a presentation…
What is the evidence of how the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic might impact on violence against women and girls (VAWG)? This helpdesk report is based on 3 days of desk-based research and is…
- National Network to End Domestic Violence, Safety Net Project
This guidance supports organisations to consider how to use technology to communicate with survivors during a public health crisis. It includes a list of tools that organisations can consider for…
This guidance provides support on establishing Gender Based Violence (GBV) mobile and remote services, in order to provide case management, psychosocial support, and referrals to meet the immediate…
This tool, the “Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability, Quality” (AAAQ) framework was originally developed for the healthcare sector, but it can also serve as a useful tool for assessing other…
This is a snapshot of the Inter-Agency Minimum Standards for Gender Based Violence in Emergencies Programming. There are 16 standards and this document presents the standard and its descriptor. The…
- National Network to End Domestic Violence, Safety Net Project
This guidance supports organisations to consider how to safely use texting for messaging survivors. It complements the resource Using Technology to Communicate with Survivors During a Public Health…