Resource and Support Hub 2 (RSH2)

The Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub 2 (RSH2) is FCDO’s flagship, global safeguarding programme. Cowater leads a consortium in partnership with Social Development Direct. One of the four strategic shifts set out in the UK Government’s Safeguarding Strategy is to ‘Strengthen organisational capacity and capability across the international aid sector’, with a commitment to providing resources to partners where needed, to ensure programmes and delivery chains prevent and respond to SEAH, in a victim-survivor centred way and in line with international standards. The RSH2 programme seeks to further contribute to this and to strengthen the prevention of SEAH via enabling primary prevention activities (e.g. building capability of organisations operating within the aid sector) and building the evidence base. The programme will underpin and build upon the UK’s strong reputation as a credible and influential leader in the protection from SEAH. It also seeks to develop locally-led models for direct capability support, in line with the UK government priority to deepen engagement with the ‘global south’.