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WINFRED MUNDIA: Before we engage any grant recipients, we conduct due diligence to determine safeguarding measures, systems, and processes they have in place to prevent harm from occurring to the ultimate beneficiaries. Secondly, once we conclude on the due diligence, we identify safeguarding gaps. And it is at this point that we bring safeguarding consultants to build their capacity. And safeguarding consultants support our grant recipients understand what safeguarding is, why safeguarding is so important in what they do. And thirdly, how to identify potential safeguarding risks. This is done through conducting safeguarding risk assessment within the various projects and activities that they are implementing. And once safeguarding risks are identified, they design mitigating measures to address those risks.

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The other safeguarding measures, whatever safeguarding measures we have in place, is that we have developed digital safeguarding and digital safeguarding policies that offer guidance to staff and to our grant recipients.

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KAYLA BRITTAN: So really, it’s about training. It’s about constantly making reporting, and referral systems, and any type of mechanism as accessible as possible. Another thing is, we also train up our children. We train up the vulnerable adults we work alongside. This is a key component that a lot of the time people tend to forget, because it’s ultimately looked at as child protection separate from the child. But it really isn’t. Children need to be involved in the process. Because children need to know their rights and need to be able to know how to defend their rights and spaces. They need to be able to identify when their needs are not being met and when their rights are being violated.

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And that has been a key learning for us at the justice desk. We found that the more children are involved in the process and recognising what it is they need in terms of reporting, the more powerful and the more effective the reporting mechanism is.

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ANANDA KING: In MSF, all the offices and missions, what we call women humanitarian missions are working under the orientation of zero tolerance policy regarding abuses. In MSF Spain, we have the behaviour unit responsible for all the preventional tools and activities that we can implement in the field in our humanitarian missions. So, some examples are workshops on abuse prevention, workshops to discuss definitions and to share group activities that will allow better understanding on the causes and the consequence of sexual harassment. And we also work with a lot of communication materials, so folders, posters, videos, and online trainings. And we also develop briefings and debriefings to international and national staff.

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Another important activity is the training of trainers, which allow us to have focal points in the fields that can reinforce the awareness messages on prevention and give orientation on the reporting lines if an abuse happens. Besides, we take all needed measures to ensure that every case of abuse is investigated, and when confirmed, we implement disciplinary measures.

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ANGELINE FADZAI MANYONGA: The measures that our organisation implements to prevent harm would include we promote awareness, and we give trainings to staff and the people that we work with on the legal safeguards and remedies. We also contribute to mental capacity policy. We work with other partners, agencies like the police, safe houses, hospitals, as a referral process. And we always try to keep on deck, like all hands-on-deck, being hands down in any projects that we’ll be having, so that we know what is happening in and out, and always keeping our ear on the ground.

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CLIFFORD ISABELLE: At Oxfam, there is a wide range of work currently undertaken by the safeguarding team and other members within the organisation. Much of our safeguarding works takes place within the countries that we work in. At the moment, there is a drive and focus on safer programming. So this is the assessment at programme design of any harm that Oxfam may cause by being in a particular area or a country, and what mitigation measures we put in place to deal with those. Another focus is barriers to reporting. Oxfam has recently published three research articles in Iraq, Ghana, and Myanmar, which looked at the barriers to reporting. This is an ongoing piece of work, which is really important for Oxfam.

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