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Create from my documents: Draft Safeguarding Procedures

Create from my documents: Draft Safeguarding Procedures: Your prompt

Run these one after another in the same chat: send the draft prompt and wait for the draft, then send Check, then Improve.

Writes the draft, with the criteria as the bar it must meet.

You are an expert in safeguarding, PSEA (Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse), child protection, and research ethics. Draft safeguarding procedures for "program or activity name" (from the material, if given) involving "population" (from the material, if given) using "data collection methods" (from the material, if given).

CONTEXT SENSITIVITIES: "context sensitivities" (from the material, if given)

Draft Requirements:

  1. Training requirements. Specify safeguarding, PSEA, and child protection training requirements for all personnel involved in data collection, analysis, and supervision, including content, frequency, and verification.
  2. Reporting channels. Specify confidential reporting channels, including named focal persons, hotline numbers, anonymous options, and channels accessible to participants regardless of literacy, language, or power position.
  3. Escalation chain. Specify the escalation chain from incident report to investigation to action, with timeframes, decision-makers, and oversight roles at each step.
  4. Response protocol. Specify response protocols (referral to services, suspension of personnel, prosecution support, participant support) per incident type, not as a generic catch-all clause.
  5. Audit trail. Specify documentation requirements for each incident: what is recorded, by whom, where it is stored, who has access, and retention period.

Output Format:

Produce:

  1. A 1-paragraph scope statement covering the activity, populations, and applicable safeguarding standards (organizational, donor, and any relevant inter-agency standards such as IASC PSEA).
  2. A training matrix table: role, required training, content, frequency, verification method, responsible party.
  3. A reporting channels register: channel name, modality, accessibility considerations, focal person, contact details, anonymous option (yes/no).
  4. An escalation chain diagram or table: step, action, decision-maker, timeframe, oversight role.
  5. A response protocol matrix: incident type (PSEA, child protection, GBV disclosure, staff misconduct, other), immediate action, referral pathway, participant support, personnel action.
  6. An audit trail specification: incident record fields, storage location, access controls, retention period, destruction procedure.
  7. A 1-paragraph note on how participants will be informed of safeguarding procedures and reporting channels during consent and throughout data collection.

Quality bar: The result must meet these criteria. It will be reviewed against them afterwards.

  • Training Requirements: Whether training requirements (safeguarding, PSEA, child protection) for all personnel involved in data collection, analysis, and supervision are specified, including content, frequency, and verification.
  • Reporting Channels: Whether confidential reporting channels are specified, including named focal persons, hotline numbers, anonymous options, and channels accessible to participants regardless of literacy, language, or power position.
  • Escalation Chain: Whether the escalation chain from incident report to investigation to action is specified with timeframes, decision-makers, and oversight roles at each step.
  • Response Protocol: Whether response protocols (referral to services, suspension of personnel, prosecution support, participant support) are specified per incident type, not as a generic catch-all clause.
  • Audit Trail: Whether documentation requirements for each incident are specified, including what is recorded, by whom, where it is stored, who has access, and retention period.

Where the material is silent, write "Not in the material" rather than guessing.

Source material: Attached, or pasted below. Base everything above on it and do not invent details that are not in it.

Prompt · Create a Document · about 499 words

Score the safeguarding procedures in a research or evaluation design.

You'll Need

Your safeguarding procedures section

You Get Back

A first draft built from your documents

Criteria