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Bond is happy to endorse the Safeguarding Essentials course and badge. We worked with Humanitarian Leadership Academy on the course concept and design, and are confident that those who complete the course will gain an increased understanding of their responsibilities for safeguarding in a development or humanitarian context. These include: - Non-negotiable safeguarding standards - How to recognise safeguarding concerns - How to act on and report safeguarding concerns

The course is a good starting point for increasing safeguarding capacity in an organisation and is in keeping with Bond’s values and commitment to change in safeguarding.

Save the Children has Zero Tolerance for the abuse and exploitation of children by any of our representatives. We are equally committed to doing everything within our power to avoid unintended harm or accidents to children due to any of our activities. This course provides the fundamentals of safeguarding is and its importance in the humanitarian and development sector. We find this course and badge highly valuable and strongly recommend it to everyone working or volunteering in the humanitarian and development field.

This badge is valuable and useful for demonstrating awareness of the ‘non-negotiables’ of safeguarding conduct ; It provides evidence of critical knowledge for all humanitarian and international development workers.

LWF World Service is pleased to endorse the Safeguarding Essentials course. The course reflects LWF's values with respect to protection from sexual exploitation and abuse and child safeguarding. It will help meet critical needs in the aid sector for accessible, engaging, introductory lessons pertaining to safeguarding.

• We find this badge valuable and useful for enhancing awareness and understanding of safeguarding within the humanitarian and development sector. The course provides solid, foundation safeguarding information essential for staff working with people who are vulnerable. It is a course that we recommend as mandatory training for Safeguarding Focal Points (in addition to in-house training), we see it is of great benefit to management and is relevant to all staff. The certificate provided on completion is useful and the handbook that participants can use is great to have for future reference. The content aligns with a lot of messaging around safeguarding in Concern and we would see it as an excellent resource for people to up-skill at their own pace and convenient time. That it is also available in French and Arabic supports consistency for our organisation.

Acción contra el Hambre is delighted to endorse the Safeguarding Essentials course. We are an organization committed to the Humanitarian Principles and to solid Principles and Values. We believe this course is important to guarantee the wellbeing and rights of the people we work with and of the people who benefit from it. We recommend this course to all members of our organization. We certify that this course offers essential knowledge for all humanitarian workers.

Humentum is pleased to endorse the Safeguarding Essentials course.

-We certify that this badge aligns with Humentum's standards -This course provides vital knowledge for all humanitarian and international development workers -We recognize the skills and competences of people who earn this badge -We recommend this course to our member organizations and their staff

Habitat for Humanity International is grateful for the work of all that developed the 'Safeguarding Essentials' course. Open sourced, learning opportunities like this are a true asset to the sector.

As an organization that takes Safeguarding seriously, we value this badge as a means of demonstrating our representatives have increased their knowledge and understanding of the subject in combination with Habitat's own learning path on Safeguarding.

I am very happy to endorse the badge for Safeguarding Essentials. We are using it as part of the training for our new Safeguarding policy across Brooke offices and it has come at just the right time. This badge is evidence of a skill or capability that we value, and as an employer we value this badge. It is great to have such an up to date, sector relevant product to be able to use. Thank you!

As one of the organisations that worked with Humanitarian Leadership Academy to produce 'Safeguarding Essentials, Oxfam is pleased to endorse the course and the badge. This badge is aligned with our core values and standards. The course is available to all and provides a great foundation to safeguarding for those working in development and humanitarian context. The badge is indicative that a person has increased their knowledge and skills of safeguarding, in both awareness and reporting.

Food for the Hungry is pleased to endorse the Safeguarding essentials course. We find this badge valuable and useful for increasing knowledge and organizational understanding of safeguarding and the importance of reporting any safeguarding issues that may arise in our daily work.

This badge is valuable for demonstrating awareness of how staff can identify and mitigate safeguarding risks. It is particularly helpful to Relief International because it has been created by subject matter experts who understand the challenges of implementing safeguarding in a humanitarian/development context. We certify that this badge aligns with our standards

As one of the organisations that worked with Humanitarian Leadership Academy to produce 'Safeguarding Essentials', War Child UK is happy to endorse the course and the badge. The badge demonstrates that a person has completed the course and therefore has increased their understanding of the essential, non-negotiable aspects of safeguarding in humanitarian and development context. The course is inline with War Child UK values and standards for safeguarding. They have increased their knowledge and understanding of what safeguarding is, the need to report all concerns, how to recognise signs of abuse and the complex nature of risk and vulnerability. The course is available to all and provides a great foundation to safeguarding for those working in development and humanitarian context.

We find this badge a valuable overview of the key components of safeguarding including reporting incidents; identifying risks and the non-negotiables of conduct. It has provided the perfect springboard for Amnesty International to educate all staff on the issues and will allow us to develop our knowledge further.

The course is split into helpful modules with a combination of learning approaches and the badge at the end allows all of our staff to demonstrate their skills and competence. We found it truly valuable.

As one of the organisations that worked with Humanitarian Leadership Academy to produce 'Safeguarding Essentials', Plan International is happy to endorse this course. We recognise this badge and value it as evidence in the recognition of an induction on Safeguarding Essentials. We are fully committed to supporting and ensuring that that those who work with us undertake this course, internalise its contents and earn this badge. Mariama Deschamps, Director, Global Safeguarding Plan International

UNICEF is delighted to see the Safeguarding Essentials course being offered. UNICEF offered input during development. The course reflects UNICEF’s values with respect to protection from sexual exploitation and abuse and child safeguarding. It will help meet critical needs in the aid sector for accessible, engaging, introductory lessons pertaining to safeguarding.

Malaria Consortium certifies that this Safeguarding Essentials badge aligns with our standards, and we recognise the skills and competencies of people who earn it. The badge provides evidence of knowledge that is crucial to our organisation, the humanitarian work we undertake, and the wider international development sector.

The Open University was a co-creator of the Safeguarding Essentials course, and can therefore state with confidence that:

• This badge is valuable and useful for demonstrating awareness of the ‘non-negotiables’ of safeguarding conduct
• It provides evidence of vital knowledge for all humanitarian and international development workers
• It aligns with the Open University’s standards
• The Open University commends the rich mix of interactive learning activities offered by the Safeguarding Essentials course, and the support provided by the virtual course guide

• This badge is evidence of one of our core values (Integrity). We believe this is an important course for anyone working for a humanitarian organisation.

• We find this badge valuable and useful in combination with our War Child learning path on Child Safeguarding.