Policy against sexual violence

Welthungerhilfe is aware that development cooperation and humanitarian aid projects and programmes create an inherent power imbalance between project participants and Welthungerhilfe’s employees or contributors who provide aid supplies and services. Sexual violence directly contravenes Welthungerhilfe’s principles, harming the people whom it is committed to protecting. Welthungerhilfe therefore applies a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual violence by Employees and Contributors regardless of whom it is directed against.