Our Policy & Code of Conduct

KAPE Code of Conduct

1. Purpose

The purpose of this Code of Conduct is to clearly articulate to internal and external stakeholders our commitments, expectations, standards, and processes for preventing and responding to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding and GEDSI mainstreaming within our organization and as it applies to all our programs.

2. Definition

Sexual Exploitation: Any actual or attempted abuse of position of vulnerability, differential power, or trust, for sexual purposes, including, but not limited to, profiting monetarily, socially, or politically from the sexual exploitation of another.
Sexual Abuse: Actual or threatened physical intrusion of a sexual nature, whether by force or under unequal or coercive conditions.
Sexual Harassment: Any unwanted sexual advance, request for sexual favor, verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.
Child Abuse: sexual abuse or other physical or mental harm deliberately caused to a child. Child abuse can be physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, sexual abuse and exploitation.
Gender Equality: or equality between women and men, refers to the equal enjoyment by women, girls, boys and men of rights, opportunities, resources, and rewards. Equality does not mean that women and men are the same but that their enjoyment of rights, opportunities and life chances are not governed or limited by whether they were born female or male.
Social inclusion: Means that all members and segments of a society enjoying equal rights and benefits in the political, economic, and social spheres, without discrimination based on sex, age, geographical area, ethnicity, place of origin, educational background, economic status, class, religion, disability, sexual identity, health status, or other factors.
Disability: Refers to a person with a disability which means someone with an episodic or long-term physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairment which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.
Discrimination: Discrimination is when decisions are made based on a person’s social attributes such as gender, race or ethnic origin, religion, association, physical characteristics and/or other differentiations.