Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Implementing Safeguarding in the International Aid Sector
This course has covered how to implement safeguarding in the international development and humanitarian sectors. It covered understanding the causes of harm, abuse and exploitation, how to spearhead safeguarding approaches and procedures in your organisation, how to implement improvements in your organisation’s safeguarding measures in different programmatic contexts, the skills and tools you need to effectively prevent, report, respond, and learn from implementing safeguarding in your work.
6 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dave Hall
University Secretary
The Open University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Mitigate and prevent against safeguarding risks associated with programmatic and organisational practice.
- Adapt existing tools using a safeguarding lens to implement activities that minimise harm to those who have direct and indirect contact with your organisation.
- Respond to challenges of safeguarding concerns using a survivor-centred and ‘do no harm’ approach.
- Support greater accountability and an organisational culture where safeguarding concerns are always reported and responded to appropriately.
Syllabus
- Building on the learning from Course 1: Introduction to Safeguarding in the International Aid Sector.
- Identification of vulnerability, intersectionality and safeguarding risks in different development and humanitarian programmes and operations.
- Development of prevention mechanisms and their use when working with children and people with disabilities.
- Reporting and responding to abuse and exploitation through community-based complaints mechanisms including whistleblowing, confidentiality, and survivor-centred referrals.
- Accountability to donors, partners and beneficiaries – including community engagement methodologies, advocacy and marketing.
- Implementation and learning from safeguarding practices when developing an organisational safeguarding culture.
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Issued on 28th December 2021
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