UKCDR Safeguarding Policy Forum

Expressions of interest requested
Deadline for expressions of interest: 29 November 2019

Event detail and description

Date: Friday 10 January 2020
Location: The Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE, UK.
Cost: Free to ARMA members

The UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) and ARMA would like to invite you to a consultation on principles and good practice guidance for safeguarding in international development research.

In October 2018, major funders of UK international development research, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Department for International Development (DFID), Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) and The Wellcome Trust pledged to join efforts to raise safeguarding standards across the sector, working in partnership with the development research community.

UKCDR is supporting this commitment by developing a set of principles and best practice guidance on safeguarding in the context of international development research. In June 2019, UKCDR published an evidence review and briefing paper which highlighted the nature of safeguarding issues in international development research and reviewed existing guidance and implementation of safeguarding policies, to develop draft principles and good practice guidance for safeguarding in international development research.

The next phase of the work will comprise of in depth online and face-to-face consultations, with a wide and inclusive stakeholder base in the UK and in selected appropriate LMIC contexts, to feed into the development of final safeguarding principles and guidance for international development research.

The final principles and guidance will support stakeholders to raise safeguarding standards in the international development research context to promote long-lasting cultural and institutional change in policy and practice.

This ARMA community are key stakeholders for this next phase, and we would really value your feedback and input into the development of the final set of guidance.