The elephant in the room: addressing sexual exploitation and abuse at international NGOs

INGOs in this category have focused on developing a centralized reporting and investigation system to manage PSEA. The system encourages staff members and stakeholders, such as local partner organizations, target communities, and service providers, to register all forms of complaints if the complainant considers the accusation a matter of concern. This has created avenues to register SEA and other concerns easily. The term registration refers to a complainant making a complaint. A high number of registered complaints is deemed to indicate successful PSEA implementation. However, this is…