Digital safeguarding policy for nonprofits
Your safeguarding policies say nothing about online risks — staff are communicating with beneficiaries over WhatsApp, social media, and personal email with no guidance at all.
What you'll achieve
A clear digital safeguarding policy that protects staff and beneficiaries in all online and remote contexts.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Review your current digital practices, identify risks, and draft a policy covering online communication, data handling, and remote programme delivery.
Key deliverables
- Digital safeguarding policy, staff guidance on safe online communication, social media guidelines, incident response protocol for digital incidents.
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From the resource library
Free tools and guides to get started
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Good Practice Review 8: Humanitarian Security Risk Management
The 3rd edition of a widely used reference on security risk management for humanitarian organisations. Practitioner experts revised it over 3 years. Its 7 chapters cover foundations, ecosystems, organisational and operational elements, people, technology, and specific threats. The 2025 edition adds a person-centred approach, the security burden on national and local actors, partnership security, access and deconfliction, and digital risks such as disinformation and surveillance. Security managers use it to design policies and plans.
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Developing child safeguarding policy and procedures
A facilitator's guide for workshops that help organisations write or strengthen a child safeguarding policy and procedures. 4 sessions cover risk and mitigation, drafting or strengthening a policy, implementation, and roles and responsibilities. Exercises include a risk assessment, a SWOT analysis, a self-assessment against the Keeping Children Safe Standards, designing a reporting procedure and mapping local resources. An appendix gives notes on planning and running a learning event.
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