1. Project Rationale

At Impact and Innovations Development Centre, we work with organisations to promote a safeguarding culture where human beings are equal and treated with dignity.

For us to live in a safe environment, we need to accept that safety is a life style that we ought to embody. It is for this that IIDC is committed to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse, violence and exploitation through our technical advisory support on safeguarding practices to humanitarian and development organisations across Africa.

2. Summary of Initiative
   • Goal of safeguarding Technical Assistance

2.2 Objective

We work with institutions and organisations in Africa to develop safeguarding policies, build capacities and accompany them to implement safeguarding practices and eliminate all forms of abuse and exploitation for children and adults at risk.

2.3 Our services:

• Capacity building: We provide technical capacities on safeguarding including safeguarding training, risk assessment, policy development/refinement, policy implementation planning and tools development, resource planning and quality assurance.
• Learning and knowledge management: IIDC facilitates design and implementation of safeguarding learning plans for organisations, document learning and also organise and convene Communities of Practice on safeguarding, where we ensure that organisations implementing safeguarding standards are a part of one big family that learns from each other towards improvement in line with ensuring safety for all.
• Case Management:We provide specialist support to organisations to manage cases of abuse, including undertaking case investigations so that they can make defensible and objective decisions. During case investigations, we ensure confidentiality, as well as protection and upholding organisation’s reputation.
• Promoting innovative approaches to Safeguarding: We embrace the opportunity to find new ways of safeguarding children, adults at risk and those working with them. IIDC supports research which highlights the scale and nature of the safeguarding challenges and the ways in which harm can be reduced based on context and programming industry. Using these results, we support organisations and institutions to create safe solutions for those they serve.

3. Partners
   1. Funding partners

CivFund

Oak Foundation

2. Implementing partners

3.2.1 Local Organisations

1. Amani Girls Home
2. C-Sema Tanzania
3. Directrice du Fonds pour les Femmes Congolaises (FFC)
4. FANA Ethiopia
5. FIDA Uganda
6. Gulu Disabled Persons Union (GDPU)
7. Koboko District Women with Disabilities Union (KOBWIDU)
8. Makerere University Child Health and Development Centre (MUK-CHDC)
9. National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR)
10. National Union of Women with Disabilities of Uganda (NUWODU)
11. Northern Uganda Media Club (NUMEC)
12. Rural Initiative for Community Empowerment-West Nile (RICE West Nile)
13. Solidarité Féminine Pour La Paix et le Développement Intégral (SOFEPADI)
14. Uganda Child Rights NGO Network (UCRNN)
15. Women Fund Tanzania (WFT)
16. Nebbi Association of Women with Disabilities (NAWD)

3.2.2 Regional organisations

1. African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME)
2. Children’s Rights and Violence Prevention Fund (CRVPF)
3. CivSource Africa (CSA)
4. Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Uganda
5. Raising Voices

3.2.3 International Organisations

1. ActionAid Tanzania
2. Pathfinder International Tanzania
3. Every Child Ministries (ECM)
4. International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW)
5. Luminos Fund
6. No Means No Worldwide
7. SOS Children’s Villages