Institutional PGI

Ensuring the IFRC Network has the right institutional capacity, composition, and commitment to address violence, discrimination and exclusion.

We work to ensure our Institutions are fit for purpose by embedding the necessary procedures, policies, and strategies so that our systems do not exclude, discriminate or make people unsafe. This includes policy-driven We aim to mitigate, This includes creating equitable opportunities for people of all gender identities, backgrounds, physical appearances and disabilities to join and fully participate within the IFRC Network. 

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How we do it

This includes organizational assessments, safeguarding policies and ensuring our institutions have diverse leadership and representation. 

We promote equitable opportunities and support senior leadership to put in place structures that promoting safe and inclusive volunteer recruitment and coordination. 

Targeted measures to ensure Institutional safety, integrity and accountability require additional measures that are based on internal protection mechanisms. These mechanisms include policies and procedures that prevent, mitigate and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse -by humanitarian actors (PSEA), Child Safeguarding and sexual harassment or bullying at the workplace, and to ensure whistle-blower protection. 

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The PGI Organisational Assessment Toolkit

To strengthen agility, relevance, effectiveness, innovation, and accountability we must invest in our own organisational development: ensuring better preparedness through safe and inclusive organisations. This includes developing our own understanding, competencies, and capacity to address Protection, Gender and Inclusion (PGI) issues in our work.

This Protection Gender and Inclusion (PGI) Organisational Assessment Toolkit (OAT) is a key step to help us systematically ensure that PGI is embedded in and across all our work. It is designed to help the IFRC network build stronger actions to identify and mitigate risks, monitor, and assess our policies, practices, and effectiveness, to better support the people and communities we serve.

A safe and inclusive environment is critical for mitigating, preventing and appropriately responding to any misconduct or violations of our fundamental principles.