GESI, Protection & Safeguarding Advisor -Border Security Programme (BSP)

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• Ensure human rights, Do No Harm, protection and safeguarding principles, are integrated across all programming and in alignment with standards, particularly where interventions may increase risk exposure for communities. • Lead development of protection and safeguarding approaches grounded in risk analysis of related protection and safeguarding risks and informed by GESI with input from programme feedback mechanisms. • Identify entry points for protection and anti-trafficking mainstreaming across Outcomes 1–3 and coordinate with HAART on outcome 4. • Ensure protection and safeguarding mitigation plans are addressed in program design, workplans, and SoPs. • Participate in strategic programme decisions to advise on how to minimize safeguarding and protection risks to communities. • Continuously identify and mitigate safeguarding risks linked to law enforcement engagement and collaboration; organised crime dynamics and retaliation risks; community engagement; and in the data management protocols. • Work with teams to develop risk mitigation plans for intelligence gathering, security, and community reporting following human rights and Do No Harm principles. • Work with security and other risk mitigation functions to regularly review safeguarding risks and mitigation measures. • Work with HAART to ensure up to date maps of locally available services and ensure referral pathways are functioning for timely survivor centred referral. • Work with MRELA manager and wider teams to enable data protection protocols and that information-sharing follows human rights principles on privacy. • Guide safe engagement with vulnerable populations including providing information on best practices and approaches as well as developing SOPs where needed. • Work with teams to make sure communication to survivors and communities about law enforcement and OIC processes and project activities are as transparent as possible and explain corresponding rights. • Integrate safeguarding and protection risk mitigation initiatives in project implementation plans and established monitoring and reporting frameworks to ensure visibility and actioning of safeguarding and protection mainstreaming initiatives. • Work with CARM teams to ensure all community engagement approaches are safe, inclusive, and minimize any exposure of target communities to harm, stigma, or retaliation. • Support CARM teams in the design and implementation of contextualized, accessible, and confidential reporting and feedback mechanisms (CARM), while ensuring the linkage, visibility and awareness of Mercy Corps primary reporting channels, the Integrity Hotline.