As we mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, let’s remember that ending violence against women begins with ensuring safety wherever women seek opportunity, and that includes microfinance.
The sector continues to experience shrinking funding and NGOs are having to reprioritise their budgets to stay afloat. Bond’s annual safeguarding survey gives us insight into what this means for our members’ abilities to keep the communities they work with safe.
How a unique collaboration between a palm oil business and two NGOs, one in the UK, the other in Sierra Leone, has seen child labour plummet.
In this blog, using Bond’s 2024 Safeguarding Survey data, we explore the progress made in sector safeguarding practices, the challenges that remain and how safeguarding continues to evolve.
Our lead on safeguarding, Graham Thursby, presents tips and outcomes from our five safeguarding skills mapping sessions, which were hosted for small NGOs over the last year.
Recognising the importance of safeguarding, International Health Partners (IHP) initiated the Safeguarding Action Group, an internal body dedicated to embedding a robust safeguarding culture within the organisation.
Recently, a public, online consultation sought views on the proposed ‘Common approach to protection from sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and sexual harassment (CAPSEAH)’. In this blog, we discuss the findings and how they are helping to improve CAPSEAH and a brief refresh on what CAPSEAH actually is.
Why is gender-based violence so endemic within humanitarian settings? Poorly planned distributions can create the perfect conditions for exploitation from strangers, abusive intimate partners, or by aid workers themselves. But there are steps humanitarian actors can take to help prevent it. Laura Hendy from World Jewish Relief tells us more.
