Attachments
1. Background
Due to the importance placed on PSEA, United Nations entities developed the United Nations Protocol on Allegations of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Involving Implementing Partners (United Nations IP Protocol) in 2018, which outlines the requirements for the United Nations when working with its implementing partners. In an effort to implement the United Nations IP Protocol through a harmonized approach, the United Nations entities are using a Common Assessment tool and are piloting a common Capacity Strengthening Implementation Plan.
The assessment is intended to provide United Nations entities the necessary assurance of partners’ organizational capacities to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse, agree with their partners on support and monitoring activities and serve as a baseline for tracking progress. The United Nations entities will assess and score a partner’s capacity based on a set of eight core standards on PSEA organizational policies and procedures to prevent and respond to SEA.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo was selected as pilot country for this assessment due to its large-scale complex operations and the fact that a number of UN entities have shared partners.