Steve Reeves, MA, MBE, is an internationally recognised specialist in combating abuse and sexual exploitation. As Executive Director of Global Safeguarding, he advises governments, NGOs and law enforcement on approaches to eliminate abuse and promote change.

Marcus Erooga, MA (Econ.), has spent his career in safeguarding roles and is now an independent Safeguarding and Sexual Abuse Consultant, consulting to organisations about the adequacy and effectiveness of their safeguarding processes and procedures, researching, publishing and providing training and presentations.

Foreword by Peter Taylor, Head of the Safeguarding Unit in the UK Government's Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

PART ONE

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?

5 The Challenge of a Standards-Based Approach To

Safeguarding

6 The HR Professionals' Dilemmas - and How to Resolve

Them

7 Gender As A Lens Into Safeguarding

PART TWO

8 Sexual Violence As A Weapon of War

9 Sexual Violence among Humanitarian Aid Workers:

No Wind of Change

10 The Global Policing Challenge: Protecting Vulnerable

Populations in Humanitarian Crises

11 When Vulnerability Meets Power: Rethinking Mandatory

Reporting in Safeguarding

12 Whistleblowing: The Personal Cost of Speaking Out and

the Human Benefit of Whistleblower's Courage

13 Strengthening Safeguarding and Accountability Through

an International Aid Ombuds for Children

14 Shaping the Future of Safeguarding in the International

Aid and Development Sector

Appendix 1 A Brief Timeline of Events from

2011-2018 (based on BBC, 2018)

Appendix 2 Understanding Effective Safeguarding

Culture