USAID, Oct. 24, 2018
How USAID Is Working to Prevent Sexual Misconduct and Exploitation
David Moore, USAID acting deputy administrator, center, addresses the International Safeguarding Summit on the importance of building organization accountability on issues of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment, Oct. 18, 2018. Moore is flanked by Yves Daccord, director general of the International Committee of the Red Cross, left, and Aneeta Williams, a development practitioner and expert on sexual exploitation and abuse. / Keetah Salazar-Thompson, USAID
It was March 2018. I had been at USAID for less than a year and had just been asked to serve as acting deputy administrator. The #MeToo movement was in full swing and the international aid community was reassessing its part in devising ways to prevent and hold individuals accountable for misconduct.
Administrator Mark Green, who had expressed zero tolerance for sexual misconduct from his earliest days as administrator, asked me to lead the Agency’s new Action Alliance for Preventing Sexual Misconduct (AAPSM), the first of its kind in USAID history.
From the outset, the response from within the Agency was inspiring — more than 100 staff from Washington and the field volunteered to participate in the AAPSM, and more would join later. To effect sector-wide change, we knew it was important to engage a wide range of external stakeholders.
In March, Administrator Green consulted with implementing partners and USAID mission directors around the world. Our mission directors, in turn, consulted closely with our implementing partner community, connecting with more than 1,700 representatives from NGOs, private contracting companies, and public international organizations in 100 countries.
In full: https://blog.usaid.gov/2018/10/how-usaid-is-working-to-prevent-sexual-misconduct-and-exploitation/
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