This is truly a programme with a difference! Utilising a combination of methods from interactive workshops to tailored facilitated small group discussions and coaching sessions, this learning experience will help you unpack and challenge the unequal power structures that perpetuate safeguarding harms. This course takes you on a journey of reviewing your organisation’s (or a client’s) safeguarding policy and developing an action plan to further decolonise the safeguarding policy and procedures so that they are appropriate to your context, meaningful and truly working for your partners and communities. We’ll introduce a safeguarding matrix of domination to unpack issues of power through the lenses of decolonisation, racial justice and intersectional feminist approaches.
Together we will examine safeguarding challenges and capacities in your context and support you to build a safeguarding action plan for decolonising safeguarding in your work.
Please note
Dates are not yet confirmed for this next instalment of our Decolonising Safeguarding course, which is reflected in the course profile. By submitting your application, you will be joining our waiting list for the course. We will inform all applicants when final dates are determined.
The course provided a safe and supportive space for vulnerability and open dialogue. I appreciate the opportunity to learn from my peers and the valuable insights shared by the mentors. I am now equipped with actionable strategies and tools that I can implement in my own work, ensuring that my safeguarding practices are inclusive and culturally sensitive. Thank you for creating such an empowering learning experience!
Course Trainers
Angie Bamgbose is an accomplished consultant, coach, facilitator and a registered social worker. Angie’s professional focus is safe organisational cultures, child protection, and safeguarding. Angie has over 20+ years experience empowering organisations and individuals across diverse sectors and regions: development and humanitarian work, NGOs, donors, the private sector, governments and UN bodies spread across AsiaPacific, Middle East, West, East and Southern Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Her passion lies in safeguarding vulnerable populations, particularly through expertise in tackling sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment, and bullying.
Lucy Heaven Taylor empowers organizations in the humanitarian and development sector. Her diverse experience spans training, organizational review, strategy development, and investigation, making her a trusted advisor to UN Women, FCDO, Oxfam, Bond and more. Lucy's passion for equity extends beyond expertise, as she champions inclusivity through her membership in key groups, media contributions, and leadership roles like the Safeguarding Workstream Lead for the Disasters Emergency Committee. Recognizing her own privilege as a white European practitioner, Lucy strives to transfer – with humility - the platform and capacity she has gained from this privilege to experts form the majority world, building a more just and safe environment for all.