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Resource Library

This resource library serves as a tool for InterAction Members to support their efforts on safeguarding in the aid sector.

Please note: most resources on the resource library are open source and do not require registration to access. To access our open-source materials, click the download button next to the resource you would like. If a resource has a lock symbol with the text “Members Only” next to it, InterAction Members can access this resource by logging in or registering. Non-members cannot access these resources and will not be approved when registering.

This library serves as a hub where stakeholders and NGO teams can access resources related to safeguarding. These resources include guidance documents, training templates, and other tools designed to help organizations and NGO staff tackle issues on sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment.

The resource library provides open access to tools and other useful information. It is designed to strengthen the humanitarian and development sector’s capacity to prevent and respond to incidents of sexual harassment and abuse.

Only InterAction Members can access the locked content in the Resource Library. If you are an InterAction Member, please register using your work email address. If you would like to explore becoming an InterAction Member, please contact Burt Blanchard at bblanchard@interaction.org.

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Your Role in PSEAH Session

 

This session is intended for use by PSEAH/safeguarding leads to train staff at their organization. The goals of the session are as follows: 1. Staff gain a deeper understanding of PSEAH. 2. Staff develop an understanding of how PSEAH is integral to your organization’s mission and work. 3. Staff begin to see a connection between their work and PSEAH. This session is designed to be about an hour and can be done virtually or in-person. This session is intended to be customizable to your organization’s needs. The slides provided are all with InterAction’s branding – however, please feel free to edit the slides to align with your organization’s branding needs. Several slides are either blank or have information that is specific to InterAction – please insert information relevant to your organization in each of these slides.

Safeguarding in Faith-Based Organizations: Benefits, Challenges, and Shared Learning

 

In faith-based organizations (FBOs), these organizational values are often influenced by faith principles. This case study examines and highlights how organizational values within FBOs influence their safeguarding activities and approach. Five InterAction Member organizations participated in this case study: World Vision United States, Islamic Relief USA, Habitat for Humanity International, Food for the Hungry, and Episcopal Relief and Development. Each organization has a unique affiliation with its respective faith and uses this affiliation in creative ways when approaching safeguarding programming.

A Human Rights Framework for Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment

This document provides a framework for humanitarian and development organizations to understand preventing sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (PSEAH) as a matter of human rights. There are three documents: 

A Human Rights Framework for PSEAH - this document includes an introduction to the framework and lays out the elements of the framework.
Annex 1: Definitions - this document defines key terms used in the framework.
Annex 2: Human Rights Documents - this document connects the key elements of the framework to internationally-recognized Human Rights Documents such as Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

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IMC and Concern Safeguarding Focal Point Training Arabic

This zip file contains the IMC and Concern Safeguarding Focal Point Training translated into Arabic.

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Aga Khan Foundation: Developing A Community-Based Complaints Mechanism in Consultation with Communities

This guideline is the result of a CBCM pilot project run by AKF in Afghanistan and Tajikistan in 2020 and 2021, co-funded by AKF USA and InterAction. The aim of this project was to pilot an approach to designing and implementing a community complaints/reporting model that drew on innovative engagement methods and that can be adapted to fir the needs of different communities (and the groups within them) in varying contexts.

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Mennonite Central Committee US: PSEAH Training Materials (Haitian Creole)

MCC created these PSEAH training materials for staff and partners with SOFA, a Haitian-based NGO. They are available in Haitian Creole. 

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PSEA YouTube Videos

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FHI 360 Safeguarding Tools

These documents were developed by FHI 360 to adapt globally approved PSEA guidelines, tools, and promising strategies applied in humanitarian/emergency settings to prevent and respond to SEA when implementing programming in traditional development and humanitarian-development nexus contexts.

The available resources are as follows:

1. FHI 360 Framework and Minimum Standards for Safeguarding Program Participants.
2. FHI 360 Safeguarding - Five Required Tools
3. FHI 360 Toolkit - How to implement FHI 360s minimum standards for safeguarding program participants.
4. FHI 360 Safeguarding - Project Checklist
5. FHI 360 Safeguarding - How to Note, standalone
6. FHI 360 Safeguarding - Awareness Raising Activities
7. FHI 360 Safeguarding - Training - Workshop - Info Session

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Your Role in PSEAH Session

This session is intended for use by PSEAH/safeguarding leads to train staff at their organization. The goals of the session are as follows:
1. Staff gain a deeper understanding of PSEAH.
2. Staff develop an understanding of how PSEAH is integral to your organization’s mission and work.
3. Staff begin to see a connection between their work and PSEAH.

This session is designed to be about an hour and can be done virtually or in-person.

This session is intended to be customizable to your organization’s needs. The slides provided are all with InterAction’s branding – however, please feel free to edit the slides to align with your organization’s branding needs. Several slides are either blank or have information that is specific to InterAction – please insert information relevant to your organization in each of these slides.

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PSEAH One Pager

This one-pager provides a basic introduction to preventing sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment.  It breaks down PSEAH into the following sections:
1. What is PSEAH
2. Why is PSEAH important?
3. What can you do?

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FUNDAMENTOS DE PSEAH Introducción a la Prevención de la Explotación, el Abuso y el Acoso Sexuales

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PSEAH Day of Action Video (Spanish)

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