Safeguarding for NGOs

Non-governmental organisations often work at high speed and significant scale – so how do you ensure you live up to your standards for recruitment, monitoring, and training?

Making compromises under pressure and working with external agencies can leave you open to allegations of abuse and exploitation. While it’s difficult to maintain complete control over contractors working thousands of miles away, there are steps you can take to identify potential risks and create processes and training that will help protect you.

Our highly specialised team can help you do just that and provide your leadership with the tools they need to ensure everyone is following protocol correctly.

We work with NGOs to:

• Carry out risk assessments
• Develop policies and protocols to mitigate risks and help you roll them out
• Identify areas for operational improvement
• Train staff to fulfil their safeguarding responsibilities
• Introduce more stringent safeguarding measures in recruitment, deployment, and staff management
• Create a framework to respond to reports and accusations
• Navigate legal issues if things go wrong
• Ensure victims, their families, and their communities have a clear path to justice, free from intimidation and procedural delays