Recent crises relating to non-governmental aid organisations have brought into sharp focus the need for a greater understanding of the safeguarding challenges which the international aid and development sector faces, and how to respond to them in a consistent, systematic and effective way. This essential safeguarding guide provides insight to operational, organisational and cultural challenges within the international aid and development sector.
The book brings together carefully chosen key professionals who have extensive operational experience of addressing and responding to these issues. In a highly challenging environment, with multiple competing demands, this book is a clearly focused and accessible resource. It sets out what those leading in the field need to be aware of, what responses they need to make and how to maintain necessary change in the long term. In relation to each key issue, through its range of chapters, the book explores what the challenge is, what is current or suggested best practice and what future developments are needed.
It provides the sector with an accessible, authoritative and ultimately essential handbook for all those working in the international aid and development sector, whether they are practitioners, safeguarding specialists, senior leaders in governance roles or regulators. The emphasis is on facilitating sector-wide change, embedding best practice and encouraging work that effectively ensures the safety and wellbeing of the world’s most vulnerable people.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Peter Taylor, Head of the Safeguarding Unit in the UK Government's Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
PART ONE
1 A Safeguarding Crisis in the UK International Aid Sector:
A Review of Recent Inquiries and Investigations
2 Leadership and Culture: How to build Safer Cultures
Through Leadership – and Why it’s Essential We Do
3 Aid Workers: Personal Risks, Responses and Recovery
4 Donor Power and Safeguarding: Enforcing Compliance or
Enabling Organisational Safety?
5 The Challenge of a Standards-Based Approach To
Safeguarding
6 The HR Professionals’ Dilemmas – and How to Resolve
Them
7 Gender As A Lens Into Safeguarding
PART TWO
8 Sexual Violence As A Weapon of War
9 Sexual Violence among Humanitarian Aid Workers:
No Wind of Change
10 The Global Policing Challenge: Protecting Vulnerable
Populations in Humanitarian Crises
11 When Vulnerability Meets Power: Rethinking Mandatory
Reporting in Safeguarding
12 Whistleblowing: The Personal Cost of Speaking Out and
the Human Benefit of Whistleblower’s Courage
13 Strengthening Safeguarding and Accountability Through
an International Aid Ombuds for Children
14 Shaping the Future of Safeguarding in the International
Aid and Development Sector
Appendix 1 A Brief Timeline of Events from
2011-2018 (based on BBC, 2018)
Appendix 2 Understanding Effective Safeguarding
Culture
