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Welcome to this FABO learning site with resources for child safeguarding in smaller organisations developed by the Danish Child Protection Network.
The resources are designed to support organizations like yours in ensuring child safeguarding across all activities, even when children are not the primary focus. For organisations receiving funding directly from Danida (Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs) or indirectly through CISU, CKU, DUF, and DH, this document will help meeting Danida’s standards, including alignment with national laws and key international protections like the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and ILO conventions.
Below you will the following materials for download:
- A Guidance document outlining how to develop a Child Safeguarding and Protection Policy in your organisation
- A Trainer’s manual for introducing the relevant topics
- A power point presentation to be used in the training
- A Dialogue Tool for enhancing child safeguarding
In this video you will be introduced further to the materials. You will hear from participants in a training in Nepal how they experienced the process of working with these materials.
Click on the video to watch the recording:
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The Danish Child Protection Network is pleased to present our newest ressoource, “Guidance: How to develop a Child Safeguarding and Protection Policy for your organisation”.
The guidance document outlines essential steps to establish clear policies, procedures, and norms that proactively prevent, protect, and respond to child abuse. It also addresses important issues like child labor prevention and broader safeguarding practices to uphold child rights and well-being.
We hope this guide serves as a valuable resource in your ongoing efforts to create safe and supportive environments for children.
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To help organizations uphold their commitment to child safeguarding, the Danish Child Protection Network has developed a comprehensive Training Manual for Master Trainers. This manual complements the guidance presented above and gives step-by-step instructions to trainers for how to present the guidance content to staff and volunteers in their organisation.
The manual is designed not only for organizations starting the policy development process but also as a valuable tool for those looking to review or strengthen existing policies. It includes a special section with a dialogue tool for facilitating community discussions about social norms, addressing topics such as definitions of childhood, perspectives on child abuse etc.
We hope this training manual will be a practical resource in your efforts to create safe environments for children across all activities and projects.
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Embarking on the journey of establishing a safeguarding system that promotes a consistent culture of protection and care in smaller organisations can seem like a daunting task. A first step can be to create a common understanding of what are child safeguarding concerns and possible actions to be taken to mitigate the risk.
The aim of this dialogue tool is to bring project staff, board members and volunteers into a safe space where they can discuss issues, share experiences, and identify needed action to ensure that the work they do will live up to the vision they have of supporting children while upholding the ‘Do No Harm’ principle.
As safeguarding concerns are often sensitive topics, it will be important to go into the discussions carefully and gradually. The dialogue tool uses the Facts, Association, Meaning and Action Learning Dialogue approach (FAMA), which promotes behaviour change from within, through a participatory group discovery process leading towards possible action.
This dialogue tool for participatory group learning can also be used to enhance community dialogue about child protection.
Trigger warning: The images and questions might be disturbing to participants who might have personal experiences with physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Make sure to never pressure participants to speak. If possible, as a facilitator, encourage participants to not share personal details but keep the examples anonymous. Allow for a safe and confidential space for follow up if necessary.
https://fabo.org/draftfile.php/122767/user/draft/602652844/Samtalekort_151024.pdf
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In this link you can access a power point presentation for download to help prepare a trainng session in your organisation regarding child safeguarding and child protection and how to prepare a comprehensive policy and safeguarding system: Link