Programme Description
Safer environments for children are mainly ensured through organisations meeting the necessary and relevant standards. These standards include developing a child safeguarding policy and code of conduct towards children, training staff and others on these, practising safe recruitment and having reporting procedures in place to deal with any breaches.
South Africa – Rest of Africa
The importance of child safeguarding is still to be fully grasped and understood, either by organisations that do not yet have any measures in place, or by those who may have the basic elements of child safeguarding in place, but have not gone beyond a certain level of implementation.
The goal of Give a Child a Family Africa is to assess and support organisations in Eastern and Southern Africa to improve their capacity, policies and processes around child safeguarding.
Available programmes:
Problem Statement
The risks to children from aid and development activities were brought into sharp focus by some notable scandals involving abuse and exploitation by staff and associates of agencies established to care for and protect children.
Target Group
More and more, there has been an increased focus placed on organisations themselves, not only in so far as the misconduct of staff is concerned, but also child safeguarding has been the focus on the potentially negative impact of organisational activities, programmes, systems and processes that may cause harm to children.