Safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment in the international aid sector: FCDO progress report 2023 to 2024
This report summarises Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) work on safeguarding in the international aid sector from November 2023 to December 2024.
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Since 2018 the UK has led in advocating improved global standards and performance on safeguarding against sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH) in the international aid sector. This included hosting an international聽safeguarding summit in 2018. View the聽outcome summary from the summit.
The UK government鈥檚 work on SEAH is designed to protect vulnerable individuals and to ensure the integrity of Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend.
This progress report summarises the FCDO鈥檚 work from November 2023 to December 2024 to improve global standards and performance on SEAH and meet the聽2018 donor commitments.
The report also summarises progress by the FCDO and other UK government departments in meeting the objectives of the聽2020聽UK strategy: safeguarding against SEAH within the aid sector.