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Helping Partners Develop or Strengthen Their Organizational Child Protection Policies.

Catholic Relief Services has developed a facilitator’s guide to help organizations develop or further strengthen their policies to protect children. This guide is meant to help partners increase their understanding of the issues involved in safeguarding children as well as best practices for organizations in creating safe, protective environments.

Different partners and organizations are at different stages in this process. This facilitation guide is therefore designed in several modules, to allow partners to pick and choose those that are most appropriate for their needs. Not all partners will need all modules. Some partners will want this to help improve their staff’s understanding of protection issues and skills. Others will want to help their management strengthen or develop a protection policy.

This training can be used simply to improve staff and volunteers’ understanding of protection. In that case, the organization can choose a few modules that help build specific skills and knowledge. They can present them as simply a training to staff, volunteers and interested management.

This training can also be used to upgrade or create a protection policy. In this case, the organization can choose to have its management team go through the training on their own, or also with staff. In effect, then, the training would become a policy development workshop.

This document is InterActions CEO Pledge on Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment by and of NGO Staff. It is useful for organizations that are looking to understand the commitments of the Pledge.

This report analyzes attacks on aid workers between 2009-2018. It also outlines sexual violence and gender differences in security risks. This report is useful for those looking to develop a better understanding of the security risks that aid workers face around the world.

This document from Bond is a sample Code of Conduct. This document is useful for organizations looking for an example of a Safeguarding Code of Conduct.

This document was produced by DFID for DFOD advisers, program managers, and Senior Responsible Officers working on programs that involve infrastructure. This document is useful for organizations that are looking to familiarize themselves with potential SEAH risks within infrastructure investments and understand what actions they can take that will help identify, mitigate and respond to SEAH risks or incidents in the downstream delivery of infrastructure programs (including taking a survivor-centered approach).

This document demonstrates how aid workers can implement practical measures to prevent sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment in line with the Core Humanitarian Standard PSEAH Index. This document will be useful for organizations that are looking for ways that they can take the key areas from the PSEAH Index and put them into practice. It also provides a real-life case study for each area covered.