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Hannah Moysey at Blue State asks: How do we safeguard people without smoothing over the reality of a crisis or losing our responsibility to bear witness?

Over 370 million girls and women globally have been subjected to rape or sexual violence as children and many experience devastating, lifelong consequences. Kids Alive International has established a new model to address this global problem.

Mercy Corps’ Laura Ragan on why addressing gender-based violence requires collaboration across disciplines, sectors and geographies.

With the FCDO announcing that funding for safeguarding will be reduced disproportionately, the risk of the quality and consistency of safeguarding plummeting increases.  How can we keep the communities that we work with safe?

Nahedeh Rashti, Director of Safeguarding Support at Mercy Corps, on why being participant-centred and grounded in operational realities makes training work, even across screens.

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.