ActionAid’s Feminist Principle as Safeguarding Approach §

Is an organizational competency??

• What is the Feminist Leadership Principle?

  • Self-Awareness: our own ability to create positive environment, mindset, ego, feeling of others
  • Self-Care and Care for Others: support ourself and others in seeking support
  • Dismantling bias: by being aware of our power and social priviledge and not discriminate
  • Inclusion: open to all, and remove barriers for oppressed groups to involve
  • Sharing power: avoid ‘top-down’ approach
  • Responsible and transparent use of power: ActionAid itself is held accountable by its staff over abuse of power
  • Accountable collaboration: work with those most marginalized to be accountable for AA’s work
  • Respectful feedback: treat others as human beings
  • Courage: willingness to speakout, take action, challenge forms of injustice
  • Zero tolerance to injustice

• What is the Survivor-centered Approach?

  • The survivor of harm is the center of the response and process to problem
    • Help reach they want to happen
    • Reason: To shift the power-balance back into survivor’s hands

Further Research §

• Emotional Intelligence theory by Daneial Golman