Safeguarding Essentials

This training will take participants through the essential safeguarding practices and requirements for organisations working in global solidarity partnerships in Africa and Wales.

Who is this training for?

• Staff, and volunteers of organisations working in partnership in Wales and Africa, who want to improve their safeguarding policy and practices.
• Both partners in Wales and in Africa are encouraged to attend the training.
• People who have not yet completed a Safeguarding training with Hub Cymru Africa, or who have completed a training more than 3 years ago and want to refresh their knowledge.

Designated Safeguarding Focal points are recommended to complete this training as a prerequisite for the Safeguarding Focal Point training.

Note: this training is a requirement under the WCVA grant scheme for staff, volunteers or trustees in Wales who are travelling, or engaged in programme activity, and staff and volunteers in African partners who have a role in safeguarding.

What will you learn?

This training will take participants through the essential safeguarding practices and requirements for organisations working in global solidarity with partners in Africa. The training will:

• Define Safeguarding within an international context, and within the context in Wales
• Explain global safeguarding standards and how to meet them
• Discuss situations and behaviours of safeguarding concern
• Understanding power and privilege and how this impacts Safeguarding
• Explain the Safeguarding cycle, and the three pillars of prevention, reporting and response and how to apply these in your organisation taking a survivor centred approach
• Share tools to assess risk, and identify gaps in practice
• Share templates for key documents that you will need to have in place to underpin best practice in prevention, response and reporting
• Use case studies to put learning into practice.

There will be some pre-work for this training in order to make best use of the group session.

This training will take place online via Zoom, and is a participatory training.

It is recommended to join from a computer or laptop if this is possible, to enable participation.

Facilitated by Sarah Mwebaze, Hub Cymru Africa, and WCVA.

Sarah Mwebaze is a Uganda based technical specialist in safeguarding, with over 20 years experience in safeguarding and child protection. Their background includes implementing robust safeguarding frameworks to protect vulnerable adults in complex settings across sub -Saharan Africa, as well as working as an Advisory specialist to Plan International, and Partners in Health. Sarah has been working with Hub Cymru Africa and the Wales Africa community since 2024, co-facilitating training and providing technical advice and support.