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The Empowered Aid help desk is a free technical advice service for aid workers and researchers – local to global – working to mitigate risks of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in humanitarian settings, brought to you by the Global…
As you know, the RSH project has been extended to Eastern Europe recently. We are now looking for individuals to be featured on the consultants' directory, who: Have expertise in safeguarding; this could be related to child safeguarding, gender…
CHS Alliance, SCHR and GCPS Consulting (managing this stage of the project) would like to invite you to participate in a 90 minutes’ interactive consultation session on “agreeing and testing a harmonised format for SEAH reporting”. This…
Rape serves as a potent weapon of war because of the shame and psychological harm it inflicts on its victims. And as with other forms of attack in conflict settings, humanitarian workers are not immune.  While some surveys of aid…
Eight displaced women living in Burkina Faso’s northern town of Kaya told The New Humanitarian they were approached for sex by local men – some of them community leaders – who said they were registering people in need of food aid. More than a dozen…
The Inter-Agency Standing Committee has published a set of guides and key messages for speakers who addresses the importance of dealing with sexual harassment in humanitarian aid. All these are included in a presentation, along with suggested…
To support NGOs in providing appropriate, rights-based- and culturally appropriate information, education, and communication materials on PSEA, UNHCR and ICVA have jointly launched the PSEA Outreach and Communication Fund. This Fund will…
The Government of Nigeria, UNICEF and Save the Children conducted this survey at the beginning of 2021. The purpose of the survey was to help the Nigeria Education in Emergencies Working Group (EiEWG) understand what support member organizations…
„True reform will have been achieved when aid organisations and workers approach people affected by crisis in a spirit of solidarity, rather than charity“Written by Tanya Wood, Executive Director of the CHS Alliance, the article is a piece of…
Following a participatory preparation approach, the Open University have just launched a new online training on safeguarding policies and procedures in the aid sector. The Open University hosted a free one-hour webinar on 21 April 2021 at 12:00…
This recent UN report ilustrates how the UN Team have work to adapt their practices in every country to continue lifesaving efforts “without disruption”. The number of UN entities that submitted action plans to prevent SEA last year, had more…
Several recent enquiries, including the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, as well as multiple high-profile cases in the international development sector, have exposed alarming rates of abuse, neglect and…
Calling all safeguarding leads!  The Open University has been commissioned by the UK government to develop three MOOCs that will build the knowledge, skills and capacity of Designated Safeguarding Leads and Safeguarding Focal Points,…
According to an internal, leaked staff survey conducted in 2018, one in three U.N. workers reported that they had been sexually harassed at some point over the previous two years. The U.N. has enacted various procedural reforms on…
Following similar concerns as those expressed in the UK International Development Committee’s report "Progress on tackling the sexual exploitation and abuse of aid beneficiaries" released earlier this month, the Netherlands Government, CHS…
Tricia Young wrote an opinion piece in Devex arguing that the full and meaningful participation of children is essential if we want to make sure children are safe in our programmes. She recalls the December conference of BOND, where the key takeway…

 
 

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