Unit 5: Response

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5.8 Are your safeguarding procedures fit for purpose?

As mentioned before, it is important that your organisational safeguarding policy and procedures describe what next steps should be taken by organisations.

This will help guide an appropriate response that is survivor-centred and appropriate. It’s not good enough to make it up as you go along.

Activity 5.8

Study the example table below. Here is a downloadable version of this table.

Column 1 – is a list of criteria for safeguarding under donor compliance standards.

Column 2 – are the indicators which satisfy the criterion.

Column 3 – has been left blank for you to complete on behalf of your organisation.

  • If the criteria are ‘Met’, shade in green or add a ‘tick’.
  • If they’re only ‘Partially met’, shade in orange/amber or ‘–’.
  • If they’re ‘Not met’, shade in red or ‘x’.

Column 4 – for those columns which have been shaded orange or red, make a note of the various areas which can be improved in your organisation.

This is a table assessing whether your safeguarding procedures are fit for purpose. There is an accessible PDF version of this table available in the downloads area.

(Adapted from FCDO’s Enhanced Due Diligence Standards. Reproduced under the terms of the OGL)

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