Source · Select Committees · International Development Committee
Recommendation 18
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Not Addressed
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It is important that aid organisations promote diversity and inclusion, including recruiting greater numbers of...
Recommendation
It is important that aid organisations promote diversity and inclusion, including recruiting greater numbers of women and minority ethnic staff to senior leadership Progress on tackling the sexual exploitation and abuse of aid beneficiaries 51 roles, to challenge and overcome discriminatory attitudes and cultures that permit sexual exploitation and abuse to perpetuate as occurred during the 2018–20 Ebola response in the DRC.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The FCDO takes this approach internally, both on race and safeguarding against SEAH. Through our core documents and the work the Government has driven since early 2018 we remain consistently clear that safeguarding against SEAH needs to be ingrained throughout our partner organisations and we are quick to take action if it is clear that this is not happening. The FCDO signed the Business in the Community (BITC) Race at Work Charter on day 1 of the new organisation and we are developing an action plan to implement our commitments which includes specific action on Bullying, Harassment and Discrimination. We also support organisations to make positive change, for example funding tools and resources which organisations can use to drive internal culture change on a range of issues.
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