HNPW-Strengthening Inter-Agency efforts to prevent and address SEA across the humanitarian response

PSEA session at the 2021 Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW)

Protection from sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment (PSEAH) is critical to the effective delivery of aid to people in need, and also to the integrity of humanitarian organizations and workers. But more than anything, they cause harm and distress to victims and survivors.

On 4 May 2021, over 100 people from UN agencies and NGOs took part in HNPW-PSEA Session, exchanging technical and field knowledge and experience on PSEA with a focus on one of the IASC PSEA key priorities: Improving victims assistance.

Panel discussion:
• How are our efforts on protection from SEA? What have we learned? What lessons can be drawn from collective efforts to prevent and address SEA at the country level?
• What are the results of mapping and analysis on access to services and gender-based violence projects to improve safe and ethical access for victims?
• What is the UN Protocol on Victim Assistance and how do we implement it?
• How can we better collaborate to protect from SEA?