Support tool for the IFRC Child Safeguarding Policy

In 2020 UNICEF and the IFRC launched a study to explore the extent of integration of gender considerations, including gender-based violence (GBV) risk mitigation, prevention and response considerations, in national and regional disaster risk management (DRM) legal and policy frameworks in Eastern and Southern Africa.

This Safeguarding Action Plan outlines the key actions the IFRC secretariat and National Societies in the IFRC network will take to strengthen PSEA and Child Safeguarding. Developed in close collaboration with The British Red Cross, Canadian Red Cross, and in consultation with IFRC and national society representatives from all regions globally.

This case for support sets out the focus for protection, gender and inclusion in the IFRC for 2022 and beyond, both thematically and geographically.

This document outlines the Protection, Gender and Inclusion Core and Technical Competency Framework. 

This overview provides you with the main steps in the pathway towards building and ensuring your core competencies for Protection, Gender & Inclusion as a IFRC staff or volunteer.

Over the past five years, the IFRC’s strategic priority of Protection, Gender and Inclusion (PGI) has been strengthened to better tackle violence, discrimination and exclusion.

This five-year report describes how this PGI approach was developed, outlines key achievements, and links to future priorities set out in the forthcoming PGI policy and operational framework.

The report includes the following themes:

1. Introduction
2. Policies and strategies – development of the PGI approach
3. Tools, training, research and advocacy
4. Programmes and operations
5. Staffing and networks
6. Movement and external collaboration
7. Implementation at regional and country levels
8. Learning from our experience

This Operational Framework for Protection, Gender and Inclusion (PGI) 2022-2025 sets out how to turn the new PGI policy into action. It highlights the priority actions, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ (IFRC) Network should take to tackle violence, discrimination and exclusion over the next five years.

Piloting tools from the Children as Partners in Child Protection in COVID-19 Guide

An Advocacy Brief from Eastern and Southern Africa ahead of the 66th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)