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CARE International collate and publishes every year annual data for complaints of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. CARE International’s standards and commitments are clearly set out in the organisation’s Safeguarding Policy on Protection from Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse, and Child Abuse (PSHEA-CA). The policy, along with a safe organisational culture, training, protocols, and reporting mechanisms in place, are central to CARE‘s prevention and response towards any type of sexual misconduct.

The current report includes all complains received by CARE International confederation in 2020 and presents them in two categories 1. Sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse towards programme participants and community members, and 2. Sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse toward CARE employees or related personnel:

CARE reaffirmed its survivor and safety-centred approach in the latest iteration of our Safeguarding Policy. This strengthens CARE’s position that the safety and privacy, and the wishes and needs of survivors guide our response and action and emphasises the need to support survivors when they make a report, during an investigation and afterwards.

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