Our recommended safeguarding books and publications

Recent crises relating to non-governmental aid organisations have brought into sharp focus the need for  a greater understanding of the safeguarding challenges which the international aid and development sector faces, and how to respond to them in a consistent, systematic, and effective way.

This book provides the sector with an accessible, authoritative and ultimately essential handbook for all those working in the international aid and development sector, whether they are practitioners, safeguarding specialists, senior leaders in governance roles, or regulators.

You can order a copy here and receive a 20% discount with this code: 25AFLY4 

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. A Safeguarding Crisis in the UK International Aid Sector: A Review of Recent Inquiries and Investigations
2. Leadership and Culture: How to build Safer Cultures Through Leadership - and Why it's Essential We Do
3. Aid Workers: Personal Risks, Responses and Recovery 4 Donor Power and Safeguarding: Enforcing Compliance or Enabling Organisational Safety?
4. The Challenge of a Standards-Based Approach To Safeguarding
5. The HR Professionals' Dilemmas - and How to Resolve Them
6. Gender As A Lens Into Safeguarding
7. Sexual Violence As A Weapon of War
8. Sexual Violence among Humanitarian Aid Workers: No Wind of Change
9. The Global Policing Challenge: Protecting Vulnerable Populations in Humanitarian Crises When Vulnerability Meets Power: Rethinking Mandatory Reporting in Safeguarding
10. Whistleblowing: The Personal Cost of Speaking Out and the Human Benefit  of
11. Whistleblower's Courage
12. Strengthening Safeguarding and Accountability Through an International Aid Ombuds for Children
13. Shaping the Future of Safeguarding in the International Aid and Development Sector
14. Appendix: A Brief Timeline of Events from 2011-2018 (based on BBC, 2018)
15. Appendix: Understanding Effective Safeguarding Culture