CRS: Helping Partners Develop or Strengthen Their Organizational Child Protection Policies

This document from Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is a facilitator's guide to help organizations develop or further strengthen their policies to protect children. This training can be used to upgrade or create a protection policy. The guide provides an overview of child protection, guidance on responding to abuse cases, and information on an organization's responsibility to protect. This document is useful for organizations seeking more information on effective child protection policies. Please note that this document is related to child protection. If you're looking for CRS' PSEA Partner toolkit, you can find it in related resources.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS): Strengthening Partners in Protection Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Toolkit

This toolkit is geared toward national and local organizations. It is primarily designated for use by the 38 national organizations involved in the SPSEA project. It may be of use to PSEA, safeguarding and/or protection focal points, where they exist, or staff in other roles designated to organizational PSEA and safeguarding tasks. It will be of particular use also to senior managers with the overall responsibility for PSEA and safeguarding. It can also be useful for program staff and operational or administrative staff to fulfil the specific PSEA functions related to their roles.

Child Safeguarding Book: Teachings of Tunki

Safeguarding, defined as exploitation and abuse committed by humanitarian aid workers on beneficiaries, is a complex and sensitive topic, which can be challenging to communicate. PSEA, or protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, is a type of safeguarding and is often referred to in humanitarian aid settings. Communicating rights and reporting to children carries additional significant challenges. Children are more vulnerable to exploitation and abuse than adults, due to their lower levels of agency and language to describe the types of behaviours that they are experiencing. Children are less able to speak against those in positions of power, and may be persuaded to keep inappropriate actions a secret or be more easily subjected to threats and intimidation against their loved ones. Traditional approaches to reporting mechanisms within the sector – hotlines, online platforms, and complaint boxes – may not work for children who are less likely to have access to the technology, locations, and writing skills to voice their experiences. Ensuring that we prevent and create safe spaces for children to report takes additional steps, tailored approaches, and innovation. This project aims to be the start of building a library of materials that are specifically directed to safeguarding of children.

Culture of Safeguarding Session and Facilitation Guide

FHI 360 Safeguarding Tools

These documents were developed by FHI 360 to adapt globally approved PSEA guidelines, tools, and promising strategies applied in humanitarian/emergency settings to prevent and respond to SEA when implementing programming in traditional development and humanitarian-development nexus contexts. The available resources are as follows: 1. FHI 360 Framework and Minimum Standards for Safeguarding Program Participants. 2. FHI 360 Safeguarding - Five Required Tools 3. FHI 360 Toolkit - How to implement FHI 360s minimum standards for safeguarding program participants. 4. FHI 360 Safeguarding - Project Checklist 5. FHI 360 Safeguarding - How to Note, standalone 6. FHI 360 Safeguarding - Awareness Raising Activities 7. FHI 360 Safeguarding - Training - Workshop - Info Session

Forum 2022

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IASC Championship Letter UNFPA

This letter from Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of UNFPA sets the priorities for the UNFPA IASC Championship on PSEA.

IASC SEA Community Based Complaint Referral Mechanism

This document provides important information on the Inter-Agency SEA Community-Based Complaint Referral Mechanism in Jordan. It outlines the roles and responsibilities of those involved in the PSEA network, information on the inter-agency referral pathway, guidelines for investigations, and implementation challenges. This document is useful for NGOs that are working in Jordan and would like more information about PSEA measures that are in place. Please note: this document is from 2016 and there has not yet been an updated version.

InterAction CEO Pledge on Preventing Sexual Abuse, Exploitation, and Harassment by and of NGO Staff

Our commitment to practices and policies that will not only protect our own staff, but also the communities we serve.

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