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Recommendation 19
19
Accepted
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Aid organisations must acknowledge the extreme power imbalances that have been a feature of the...
Recommendation
Aid organisations must acknowledge the extreme power imbalances that have been a feature of the sector and design their programmes in a way that empowers beneficiaries. Managers should be held responsible for instilling an open and inclusive culture at their organisation that is actively anti-racist, where all staff are valued and safeguarding against sexual exploitation and abuse is ingrained in its daily operations. They should be reprimanded when it is clear this hasn’t happened.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government highlights its existing due diligence assessments, funding agreement expectations, and consistent engagement with multilateral partners to ensure safeguarding procedures are met. It also notes securing an agreement for MOPAN to include SEAH indicators in assessments from 2021, asserting its current leverage and accountability mechanisms.
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Government Response
Accepted
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. 6 Seventh Special Report of Session 2019–21 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. Standards, accountability and regulation
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