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Safeguarding and Beyond – Recommendations from the Gender and Development Network – GADN

GADN’s recommendations for INGOs on safeguarding against sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse, emphasizing power analysis and cultural change.

The Gender and Development Network (GADN) provides recommendations for INGOs responding to sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse. The document stresses understanding specific harms, power inequalities, and the importance of intersectional power analysis. Key points include recognizing past abuses, addressing power imbalances, transforming organizational culture, and acting on existing organizational knowledge. The recommendations cover framing safeguarding discussions, accountability to beneficiaries and survivors, shifting organizational culture, improving safeguarding practices, and ensuring concerns are heard and acted upon.