Safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment in the international aid sector: FCDO progress report 2023 to 2024

Since 2018 the UK has led in advocating improved global standards and performance on safeguarding against sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH) in the international aid sector. This included hosting an international safeguarding summit in 2018. View the outcome summary from the summit.

The UK government’s work on SEAH is designed to protect vulnerable individuals and to ensure the integrity of Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend.

This progress report summarises the FCDO’s work from November 2023 to December 2024 to improve global standards and performance on SEAH and meet the 2018 donor commitments.

The report also summarises progress by the FCDO and other UK government departments in meeting the objectives of the 2020 UK strategy: safeguarding against SEAH within the aid sector.