Be strengthened to prevent and protect against gender-based and sexual violence and support resilience processes.
NGOs have made significant efforts over the past 15 years to avoid harm in their interventions, particularly in the fight against sexual and gender-based violence. To this end, most of them have adopted tools such as codes of conduct or alert procedures. However, the reality shows the difficulties in implementing these measures, as shown by the media revelations of acts committed by NGO employees.
At their level, the major international donors have committed themselves to a charter of 22 principles aimed at preventing and protecting against sexist and sexual violence committed by staff acting in international solidarity. This charter is reflected in an increased level of requirements in terms of tools and accountability mechanisms for NGOs. While British, American and Norwegian donors have been able to mobilize substantial financial resources to support NGOs in developing processes, no resources are planned at this stage for French NGOs. However, not all organizations have the necessary resources to define and deploy policies, actions and tools to prevent and combat gender-based and sexual violence and to protect all those affected by such violence. And French NGOs all testify to the difficulties of ownership and awareness-raising, whether in the field or at headquarters.
Coordination SUD therefore wishes to strengthen the capacities of its members on the subject through the continuation of workshops for the exchange of practices between peers, training and the development of an awareness-raising module/guide of good practices to be disseminated in the field and which can be translated. In order to ensure a relevant identification of real needs and to avoid duplication, Coordination SUD has already begun to make an inventory of existing good practices, procedures and tools in the sector through a documentary watch, collaboration with organizations and consultants specialized in the field (sharing of tools with CHS Alliance), Exchanges of practices and sharing of experiences between member NGOs that feed our work spaces as well as the rapprochement with other platforms (collaboration with the BOND platform concerning the translation of tools, participation in the safeguarding conference organized by the platform generating contacts and initiating links with several platforms, participation in the survey currently conducted by Forus concerning the elaboration of a toolkit).
This project will also strengthen the links between Coordination SUD and other platforms such as BOND and Forus (participation in the safeguarding group) and will make it possible to widely share the production of an awareness-raising module/good practice guide between French-speaking actors that can be translated into at least one other language. Therefore, if the proposed project is based on an activity aimed at French NGOs, it intends to share the experience thus acquired in terms of AMPSL with the members of FORUS.
In its approach to AMPSL, Coordination SUD recognizes both the term victim at the beginning of the process, in accordance with the stages of the legal process, and the term resilient person, which comes from the "survivor" approach considered to be more positive, to define people who have made progress in their recovery process.