Empowered Aid: Reducing Risks Of Sexual Exploitation And Abuse In Aid Distribution

This overview of the Empowered Aid research project (January 2020) synthesizes findings from ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda. While humanitarian efforts traditionally focus on punishing perpetrators after an incident, this study emphasizes contextual safeguarding—proactively identifying and fixing the "conducive environments" that allow Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) to occur in the first place.