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1. Introduction
Background: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) by UN personnel directly contradicts the core values of the UN , and is a protection failure on the part of the aid and peace keeping community. SEA inflicts harm on those whom UN personnel are obligated to protect, as well as jeopardizes the credibility of all assistance agencies. The revelations of the extent of the problem in West Africa in 2002 led to a number of initiatives by the humanitarian community to address the matter, including the introduction of strict measures of prevention and response as elucidated in the UN Secretary-General’s Special Bulletin: Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, (2003), which demanded zero tolerance for SEA perpetrators. UN personnel including peacekeepers and civilian UN personnel, and other humanitarian workers everywhere are expected to uphold the highest standards of personal and professional conduct at all times to protect beneficiaries of assistance. As part of the measures to protect staff and beneficiaries of assistance and the populations of South Sudan, the UN in South Sudan decided to establish a Task Force on Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA TF). Since its Establishment, the PSEA TF, developed a strategy on PSEA and conducted a mapping of agency specific Actions on PSEA. The PSEA TF has an agreed ToR. Furthermore, UN entities have been supporting Community Based Complaints Mechanisms (CBCMs). These SOPs address some of the objectives in the agreed PSEA strategy and some aspects of the functioning of the PSEA TF and the CBCMs.