Unit 3: Prevention
3.9 Empowering beneficiaries and service users
Recruitment, meaningful codes of conduct, policies and practices are all key elements of prevention. This work can be complemented by thinking about how prevention can be further strengthened by work with your beneficiaries and their communities.
It is important that this is not a matter of passing responsibility for safeguarding to them as it is the organisation which must exercise its duty of care to keep all people safe. Empowering beneficiaries and their community to speak out is a positive protective mechanism.
For example, they need to know what your organisation’s Code of Conduct says so that they can hold your organisation to account for the behaviour of your staff and representatives.
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Activity 3.10 Promoting your organisational Code of Conduct in communities Watch the video above, an extract from the UN video To Serve with Pride, about community members in Cambodia.
When you have watched the video, consider these questions and note your answers in the learning journal.
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Want to find out more?
If you are interested in learning more about the participation of children in safeguarding, follow the link below.
- A Bond article on Facilitating meaningful child participation in safeguarding.
- A New Humanitarian article, 50 women accuse aid workers (September 2020), which is a reminder that the international sector still needs to do more to safeguard vulnerable women and girls.