Technical Competency
Informed Consent
Professional Development:
As an individual or as part of continuing professional development of personnel, there are some resources which can be valuable in supporting the development and capacity building around this Murad Code Technical Competency.
The Murad Code, Principle 2, available at https://www.muradcode.com/murad-code
Physicians for Human Rights, “Child-Centred Documentation Toolkit”, Foundational Principles for Applying the Concepts of Consent, Assent, Dissent and Evolving Individual Capacity to Ensure Trauma-informed Documentation, Justice, and Reparations Processes for Child Survivors of Sexual Violence (2024), available at https://phr.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/PHR-Child-Centered-Documentation-Toolkit-2024-ENG.pdf
Women’s Refugee Commission and IRC, “Building Capacity for Disability Inclusion in Gender-Based Violence Programming in Humanitarian Settings: Tool 9: Guidance for Obtaining Informed Consent from Persons with Disabilities” (2020), available at https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GBV-disability-Tool-9-Guidance-for-GBV-service-providers-Informed-consent-process-with-adult-survivors-with-disabilities.pdf
Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights and Coalition for Just Reparations (C4JR), “Toolkit for Ethical Engagement With Survivors” (2024), from p.32, available at https://c4jr.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Toolkit-for-Ethical-Engagement-with-Survivors_English.pdf
Dart Centre Europe, “Reporting on Sexual Violence in Conflict Guidelines” (2021), Section 3 Does My Interviewee Fully Understand What They are Signing Up For?, available at https://www.coveringcrsv.org/does-my-interviewee-fully-understand-what-they-are-signing-up-for/