NGOs and other agencies may work in a variety of settings with great variations in understandings and arrangements for child protection. There are sometimes different understandings of what child abuse means. You need to give clear guidance to staff, partners and other organisations (including funding organisations) on how the child protection policy will be adapted and applied practically in these different circumstances. The guidelines must be applied in ways that are sensitive to different cultures but without condoning practices that are harmful to children. Under the download button, you can find a checklist that you can use for gathering local information to make sure children are protected in all the locations that you work.