Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Strategy

Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Strategy

The overarching goal of this protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) Strategy in Ethiopia is to protect community members from sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) by humanitarian and development actors.

This entails ensuring that all humanitarian and development operations in Ethiopia implement and monitor a zero tolerance for SEA, including a zero impunity for any humanitarian or development actor found to have engaged in SEA. Protection from SEA embeds the prevention and response to SEA with a specific attention to victim assistance as per the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) plan for accelerating PSEA.

PSEA Strategy’s Endorsement

We the undersigned members of the humanitarian and development community in Ethiopia, hereby commit to implement and monitor in a coordinated and meaningful manner this Strategy on protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).

This PSEA Strategy reflects our people centered approach and our accountability to the affected populations (AAP) we are committed to serve with dignity and respect.

This PSEA Strategy is endorsed in Ethiopia by:

• The PSEA Network on 17 August 2020
• The Inter-Agency Accountability Working Group (IAAWG) on 19 August 2020
• The Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG) on 19 August 2020
• The Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) on 17 September 202

Design and layout by Nina Tabinaeva, Information Management Specialist at UN RCO Ethiopia.