When Vulnerability Meets Power

Safeguarding in the International Aid and Development Sector
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-13684-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 620 g

Recent crises relating to non-governmental aid organisations have brought into sharp focus the need for a greater understanding of the safeguarding challenges which the international aid and development sector faces, and how to respond to them in a consistent, systematic and effective way. This essential safeguarding guide provides insight to operational, organisational and cultural challenges within the international aid and development sector.

The book brings together carefully chosen key professionals who have extensive operational experience of addressing and responding to these issues. In a highly challenging environment, with multiple competing demands, this book is a clearly focused and accessible resource. It sets out what those leading in the field need to be aware of, what responses they need to make and how to maintain necessary change in the long term. In relation to each key issue, through its range of chapters, the book explores what the challenge is, what is current or suggested best practice and what future developments are needed.

It provides the sector with an accessible, authoritative and ultimately essential handbook for all those working in the international aid and development sector, whether they are practitioners, safeguarding specialists, senior leaders in governance roles or regulators. The emphasis is on facilitating sector-wide change, embedding best practice and encouraging work that effectively ensures the safety and wellbeing of the world’s most vulnerable people.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erooga, Marcus

Reeves, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Folgen von Katastrophen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Kindesmissbrauch, Sexueller Missbrauch, Häusliche Gewalt
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE

1 A Safeguarding Crisis in the UK International Aid Sector:

A Review of Recent Inquiries and Investigations

2 Leadership and Culture: How to build Safer Cultures

Through Leadership – and Why it’s Essential We Do

3 Aid Workers: Personal Risks, Responses and Recovery

4 Donor Power and Safeguarding: Enforcing Compliance or

Enabling Organisational Safety?

5 The Challenge of a Standards-Based Approach To

Safeguarding

6 The HR Professionals’ Dilemmas – and How to Resolve

Them

7 Gender As A Lens Into Safeguarding

PART TWO

8 Sexual Violence As A Weapon of War

9 Sexual Violence among Humanitarian Aid Workers:

No Wind of Change

10 The Global Policing Challenge: Protecting Vulnerable

Populations in Humanitarian Crises

11 When Vulnerability Meets Power: Rethinking Mandatory

Reporting in Safeguarding

12 Whistleblowing: The Personal Cost of Speaking Out and

the Human Benefit of Whistleblower’s Courage 13 Strengthening Safeguarding and Accountability Through

an International Aid Ombuds for Children

14 Shaping the Future of Safeguarding in the International

Aid and Development Sector

Appendix 1 A Brief Timeline of Events from

2011-2018 (based on BBC, 2018)

Appendix 2 Understanding Effective Safeguarding

Culture

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Reeves, MA, MBE, is an internationally recognised specialist in combating abuse and sexual exploitation. As Executive Director of Global Safeguarding, he advises governments, NGOs and law enforcement on approaches to eliminate abuse and promote change.

Marcus Erooga, MA (Econ.), has spent his career in safeguarding roles and is now an independent Safeguarding and Sexual Abuse Consultant, consulting to organisations about the adequacy and effectiveness of their safeguarding processes and procedures, researching, publishing and providing training and presentations.