Soteria. Preventing Individuals from Using Aid Work as Means to Access and Offending against the Vulnerable

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Publication language
English
Pages
2pp
Date published
01 Jan 2021
Type
Factsheets and summaries
Keywords
National & regional actors, Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH)

BACKGROUND Aid organizations employ highly mobile international staff to work in fragile environments, delivering humanitarian assistance to alleviate the suffering of some of the world’s most vulnerable communities. Perpetrators of sexual exploitation and abuse have used staff and volunteer positions in the aid sector to harm the same people they are meant to help. The globalized nature of aid work presents challenges to robust screening, particularly after humanitarian emergencies that require immediate relief on the ground.