IASC Briefing: Strengthening Country-Level PSEA Capacity, with a Focus on the SEA Risk Overview
Geneva
Wednesday, 4 April 2023
Watch the recording of the full briefing here: https://youtu.be/ZYeQ2Cn-9Uc
Sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) is an extreme form of abuse of power, causing serious harm to the victims/survivors and their families and communities and undermining the work of the entire humanitarian community. With such damage increasingly evident, actors working across emergency, development and peace contexts are committed to ensuring that those in need can access assistance without fear of SEA. Critical to these efforts is raising awareness on protection from SEA (PSEA) among those engaged in humanitarian work at the frontline.
In 2022, The IASC Principals endorsed a five-year PSEAH Vision and Strategy for 2022-2026 that prioritizes operationalizing a victim-centred approach; promoting lasting change in organizational culture, behaviour and attitudes; a data-driven approach to PSEA and increasing country capacity in high-risk contexts. Much work is already ongoing, including a global mapping exercise that gathers data on PSEA progress at country level against on a core set of PSEA indicators to establish a baseline across priority countries that is actively tracked on a global dashboard displaying results of the mapping exercise, and the new PSEACap project. In addition, the beta version of the SEA Risk Overview was recently launched. This is a Composite Index that brings together indicators on a range of different factors that can influence the risk of SEA.
This briefing will be an opportunity to highlight the ongoing efforts to enhance the evidence-based approach to PSEA and accelerate PSEA progress at country level through showcasing the newly released beta version of the SEA Risk Overview and other tools and initiatives. The briefing will include:
- An update on progress towards the 2022-26 PSEAH Vision and Strategy
- An introduction to the SEA Risk Overview
- An update on the 2022 global mapping exercise of country progress on PSEA and the IASC PSEA Dashboard
Speakers:
- Mr. Craig Williams, Humanitarian Consultant, Co-founder of the Index for Risk Management (INFORM) initiative
- Ms. Maria del Carmen Rodriguez, IASC PSEA Risk Consultant, (UNICEF)
- Ms. Anne-Marie Connor, Special Advisor to the WVI President & CEO, IASC PSEAH Championship
- Ms. Marta Agosti, Inter-Agency PSEA Coordinator, OPT
Moderator
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Ms. Wendy Cue, Senior IASC PSEA Coordinator
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