This report outlines The Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response’s (SCHR) achievements within the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Championship on Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Sexual Harassment (PSEAH).
This paper considers a series of cultural barriers that experts on protection against sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment (PSEAH) and humanitarian managers believe are still hindering our collective progress.
The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) has been committed to the principle and delivery of an inter-agency community-based complaints mechanism (IA CBCM) since 2016.
The IASC Definition & Principles of a Victim/Survivor Centered Approach represents achieving the objective laid out in commitment 1 of our IASC Strategy, "to adopt a shared definition and understanding of the elements of a VCA and related responsibilities".
Renewing their commitment to the joint responsibility to deliver on collective accountability, IASC Principals endorsed the IASC Strategy for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment 2022-2026. The strategy proposes three commitments: Victim and Survivor Centered Approach, Change in Organizational Culture, Support country Capacity.
This concept note describes an ongoing project to develop a tool that analyses the risk of SEA in countries with active international humanitarian operations to provide a common, shared, and informed basis for identifying SEA risks, and compare risk across countries and over time. A beta version of the model is planned for Q3 2022.
The IASC External Review of Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment was commissioned by the 2021 IASC PSEAH Champion, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem.