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DFID Enhanced Due Diligence: Safeguarding for external partners

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Published 18 October 2018
From: Department for International Development

This guide for DFID partners gives details of new safeguarding standards designed to keep beneficiaries and those delivering aid programmes safe from sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

Details

This guide provides DFID partners with details of the new safeguarding standards the Secretary of State for International Development announced in March 2018. It explains how they will be applied as part of DFID’s programme management cycle, and also in enhanced due diligence assessments (DDAs) of partners.

The standards aim to assess an organisation’s ability to protect children, young people and vulnerable adults they work with, as well as their own staff and volunteers, from sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment.

This is the first version of the guide, which was shared informally in June with UK Civil Society Organisations who receive direct funding from DFID. It has been used in initial assessments and for consultation with partners. It is likely to be updated by early 2019.

Published 18 October 2018