Framework Objectives

1. Promote a shared culture of safety, inclusion, and accountability across all AHEEN institutions and programs.
2. Identify and mitigate safeguarding risks across AHEEN’s secondary education, tertiary education, and sports programming.
3. Define minimum safeguarding benchmarks that partners can contextualise within their own policies and systems.
4. Strengthen accessible referral and reporting pathways that are appropriate to local contexts and institutional structures.
5. Integrate safeguarding into program design, research, and monitoring as an enabling condition for learning outcomes.
6. Foster collective responsibility and mutual accountability among universities, RLOs, humanitarian partners, and host governments.
7. Design and roll out training materials for all AHEEN members and program participants.