Background:

• The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Force on Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) was created by the IASC in July 2012.
• The IASC Task Force on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) by humanitarian workers was established in January 2012.
• Since January 2014, these 2 tasks force were combined as the IASC AAP/PSEA Task Team

Task team objectives :

• Foster a culture of accountability and protection from sexual exploitation and abuse at all levels of the humanitarian system.
• Encourage institutionalization of AAP and PSEA within humanitarian organizations, including local and national NGOs, INGOs, Red Cross Red Crescent movement and UN Agencies.
• Support operationalization of AAP and PSEA at collective level as well as individual agency level.

Participation :

Participation is open to all interested humanitarian organisations, especially operational agencies. The task team brings together NGOs, UN, IOM, the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, and other national and international organisations on an equal footing. Participants may also be non-IASC or development actors. Participants are expected to actively contribute to the work of the Task Team and take on responsibilities to advance the Task Team’s work