Safeguarding
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- Fact sheet
This resource sets out the safeguarding risks faced by older refugees in the Middle East and North Africa. It focuses on protection from harm and ensuring they have access to vital services. It also provides guidance on how organisations working…
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- Fact sheet
This resource outlines the safeguarding risks faced by refugees with physical disabilities. It provides guidance on how civil society organisations and humanitarian actors can adapt their safeguarding measures to prevent harm from occurring to…
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- Fact sheet
This bitesize note clarifies the distinctions and overlaps between sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment and gender-based violence within the development and humanitarian sectors. It provides a concise overview to help practitioners…
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- Tools and templates
This resource presents research and collation of good practice and tips in designing perception surveys in order to understand gender equality issues, including recommendations on safeguarding, meaningful participation and inclusion. The paper…
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- Guidance document
This resource focuses on safeguarding people with disabilities and mental health conditions in humanitarian and development programmes. It was written in collaboration with people with disabilities. The resource contains three parts:definitions…
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- Guidance document, Tools and templates
This resource is a how-to-note which provides guidance to help civil society organisations (CSOs) measure how effective their safeguarding policy and practice is against sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH). It is accompanied by…
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- Fact sheet , Guidance document
This resource is guidance developed for country offices in the UK Government’s former Department for International Development (DFID) to support them with efforts to prevent and address violence against women (VAW) and violence, abuse and…
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- Guidance document
This programme operating framework explains how to overcome key barriers experienced by organisations of people with disabilities. It was developed to help the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office staff working on programme delivery,…
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- Report
The UK Government has committed to preventing and responding to conflict-related sexual violence and sets out the actions it will take in the UK women, peace and security national action plan 2023-2027.This resource addresses the gap in research on…
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- Evidence/literature review
This resource is part of a series of ‘poverty profiles’ by the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) focused on eight of the most marginalised group-based identities. It responds to the fact that global progress has not benefitted everyone equally,…
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- Graphic resource, Multimedia
This resource aims to provide civil society organisations with a simple means of remembering key facts about safeguarding. The infographic focuses on four areas referred to as the ABCD of safeguarding:accountabilitybuilding…
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- Guidance document
This resource explains the need for disability-inclusive child safeguarding. It builds on consultations with children with disabilities and youth with disabilities, and experience from over 20 organisations. The resource includes information about…
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- Tools and templates, Video, Multimedia
This resource is a child-friendly animated video published alongside disability-inclusive child safeguarding guidelines and a toolkit. The aim of this resource is to inform children with disabilities about their right to be and feel safe…
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- Guidance document, Policy paper
This resource sets out what the UK Government is doing to improve safeguarding standards across its overseas development assistance work. It focuses specifically on safeguarding from sexual exploitation and abuse and harassment within the…
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- Fact sheet
This resource outlines key principles to consider when applying safeguarding measures in humanitarian and development work. It makes specific recommendations around the inclusion of people with disabilities within safeguarding efforts. Also…
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- Guidance document, Tools and templates
This resource is the Murad Code which brings together existing minimum standards for the safe and ethical collection and use of information from survivors of systematic and conflict-related sexual violence (SCRSV). It outlines how survivors of…
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- Graphic resource, Multimedia
This infographic explains how civil society organisations can design and deliver programmes that are safe for programme participants and general community members. The resource defines what safe programming is and sets out ways in which civil…
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- Guidance document
This guide focuses on disability-inclusive safeguarding in the workplace. It was developed for organisations working in the humanitarian and development sectors. This guide has three sections:definitions of different disabilitiesrisks people…
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- Guidance document
This resource focuses on the safeguarding risks that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex (LGBTQI+) staff face when working in or collaborating with civil society organisations. It makes recommendations for how organisations can make…
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- Guidance document
This resource explains the challenges people with disabilities can experience in humanitarian settings. These include barriers to accessing humanitarian assistance, protection risks, and stigmatisation and discrimination. The resource sets out…
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- Fact sheet
This resource explains what intersectionality is and why it is important to organisations working in humanitarian and development contexts. It also provides advice on how to integrate an intersectional approach into safeguarding work. The…