Safeguarding: protecting vulnerable people

Ideas are the spark that ignites the fire of knowledge and transformation. In this podcast, we explore how to turn these ideas into tangible actions that impact the world around us.Today, with Amador Gómez, our Director of R&D, we embark on a journey to Mali, where the difference in weight gain between regions during the treatment of severely malnourished individuals has become a mystery. How to approach this issue? We analyze two options: investigate the nutritional composition of the basic basket or compare the quality of treatment between regions.Which option would you choose? Discover it in today's episode.

In this episode, we will talk about safeguarding as an essential ethical pillar for our organisation and how we can contribute to creating a safe and respectful environment for all people.You will discover:🔹 Our safeguarding policy and how we act to protect the most vulnerable people we work with.🔹 The importance of working on prevention and how our proactive actions in this regard can avoid risky situations for the most vulnerable.

Research is important for the progress of societies. It plays a fundamental role in generating evidence and creating new knowledge. For humanitarian action, having this solid evidence base helps us to understand what is and is not working and to take decisions accordingly, hence its vital importance. In this chapter we will see how this evidence provides the knowledge we need to tailor our programmes and intervention models to the needs of the populations we work with, enabling us to develop effective solutions to boost our operational capacity. In addition, generating evidence helps us to make informed decisions and evolve our interventions to increase their quality, impact and effectiveness. For this reason, research must be fully integrated into the operational planning and project cycle and must be useful and relevant to the communities we work with.

You've probably heard the term "digital transformation" mentioned more than once, right? Well, it's much more than just adopting new technologies in our daily work. Digital transformation implies getting used to a new way of working that is more collaborative, process-based and with an agile and innovative approach, and this adaptation implies a cultural change for the whole organisation. In this chapter, Paloma Pérez and Gustavo Cotrina explain what digital transformation consists of, why it is essential for our organisation and how we can support this process of cultural change.

You have probably heard of feedback or feedforward. These are indispensable communication and team management tools. Now that we are about to start the annual appraisal process, it is a good time to start using these simple but powerful tools if you are not already using them. We suggest you listen to our expert on "Enaction". He advises us on how to get effective feedback and introduces us to the technique of feedforward and its great potential for the development of the person to whom it is addressed.

In this chapter of "Enaction" we discuss a topic of great importance for the organisation: the prevention of and response to harassment in the workplace. Although we all know that the basis for a good working environment is mutual respect, it is necessary to have a protocol in place to deal with this type of situation if it occurs. In this interview, our expert will share with us the details of how the protocol for prevention and action in case of workplace harassment is being applied in our organisation.

In today's chapter, an expert in mentoring will explain the basis of this discipline, whereby a person with a higher degree of experience in a certain field shares their experiential capital with another person who wishes to develop in the same area. Moreover, mentoring is a bilateral discipline, since the process itself enriches not only the person being mentored, but also the mentor.

This time, our communications expert explains the key elements to create a podcast in our new episode "How to Create a Podcast". Maybe you weren't planning on recording a podcast, but take a listen: it might be that you simply didn't know that you could do it!

In our first episode, three of our Water, Sanitation and Hygiene coordinators will talk about how important it is to maintain hygienic measures to minimise the transmission of diseases, and what kind of actions they apply in their projects. 

Very soon, “Enaction”, the training podcast of Action Against Hunger, will air in the 3 languages that we work in: English, French and Spanish. “Enaction” is a new, dynamic and attractive way to learn or to refresh your knowledge. You can listen to “Enaction” on your computer or your mobile phone through your favourite podcasting app. Each month, we release a new monographic episode in 3 languages (English, Spanish and French), with interventions by internal and external experts about a variety of topics that will surely interest you. Subscribe to avoid missing any episodes!