Saba Gul Independent researcher · Organizational safeguarding & PSEAH

Research & Publications

All outputs are published open access. Datasets are released for reuse under CC BY 4.0.

Safeguarding Without a Baseline: A Crosswalk from the IASC Six Core Principles to United States Domestic Legal and Regulatory Anchors (2026)

Working paper and dataset · Module 1 of the U.S. Nonprofit Safeguarding Crosswalk Project

This working paper maps the thirteen discrete obligations contained in the IASC Six Core Principles Relating to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse against their closest United States legal and regulatory anchors. It finds that no obligation is matched by a U.S. requirement of general application that both reaches the nonprofit sector as a class and protects the people nonprofits serve: existing coverage is confined to a single certified sub-sector, conditioned on specific federal funding, binds individuals rather than organizations, or operates only as after-the-fact liability. A seven-value gap taxonomy accompanies the crosswalk as an open dataset for reuse by other researchers.

Cite as Gul, S. (2026). Safeguarding Without a Baseline: A Crosswalk from the IASC Six Core Principles to United States Domestic Legal and Regulatory Anchors. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21847737

The Underfunded Mandate: Structural Drivers of PSEAH Failure Across Humanitarian, Development, and U.S. Domestic Nonprofit Sectors (2026)

Working paper — under peer review

A comparative study of why prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (PSEAH) fails at the point of implementation across the international humanitarian, U.S.-funded development, and U.S. domestic nonprofit sectors — and a measurable reform framework for the domestic sector, where the gap is widest and least measured.

Cite as Gul, S. (2026). The Underfunded Mandate: Structural Drivers of PSEAH Failure Across Humanitarian, Development, and U.S. Domestic Nonprofit Sectors. Zenodo. [DOI]

The U.S. Nonprofit Safeguarding Crosswalk Project: Implementation Toolkit v1.0 (2026)

Open-access practice tools · CC BY 4.0

Four tools for small and mid-sized nonprofits: an organizational safeguarding policy template, a 30-indicator readiness self-assessment, an adopter feedback form, and training outlines for three sessions an organization’s own staff deliver. See the Toolkit page for what each contains and how to adopt them, or complete the self-assessment in your browser.

Cite as Gul, S. (2026). The U.S. Nonprofit Safeguarding Crosswalk Project: Implementation Toolkit v1.0 — Policy Template, Self-Assessment, Adopter Feedback Form, and Training Outlines. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21856846