All staff and associates need to understand their safeguarding obligations and know how to uphold these. All beneficiaries, affected populations, and wider communities, including children, also need to know about an organisation’s safeguarding commitments.

Effective communication on safeguarding and regular training help all staff and associates to understand the safeguarding policy and their responsibilities.

People with specific safeguarding responsibilities benefit from additional, specific training. For example, safeguarding focal points or staff working in human resources and leadership teams need specific knowledge for their technical area and safeguarding duties.

People, including children, have different needs and abilities and different levels of understanding. Therefore, it is helpful to use a variety of different communication methods to provide broad access to information on safeguarding and people’s rights to protection from SEAH.

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This think pieces outlines how safeguarding and language connect for organisations working in the humanitarian and development sector. The think piece explains how power and language relate and outlines different safeguarding-related risks of…
The RSH is developing a series of five online training modules called Safeguarding Matters. The modules use scenario-based learning to tell the story of a fictitious civil society organisation called Family Health Frontiers (FHF). Over the five…
The toolkit is adaptable and designed to assist humanitarian and development agencies to communicate key safeguarding messages derived from the Six Core Principles Relating to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse to the communities in which they and their…
These training slides cover 5 core areas: 1. An overview of what safeguarding is in Plan International and how its safe programming and influencing tools fit into the organisation's safeguarding commitment, 2. Plan International's safe programming…
This guidance has been developed by Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to support primarily DFAT funded organisations on how to address the protection and well-being needs of children and young people when using social media,…
This guide outlines best practice when engaging children in our communications and media work, and provides guidance to help you prepare, plan, and deliver sensitive, supportive, and effective communications.
Raising awareness and communicating on safeguarding issues can be complicated. Safeguarding and particularly Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Sexual Harassment can be a sensitive issue, and it is not always easy to talk about, even with people we…

 
 

Safeguarding Essentials