Guide for Managers – Preventing and Responding to Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Sexual harassment is prohibited conduct in the workplace and in connection with work. It is unacceptable and must be eradicated from the UN workplace. All UN system personnel are required to uphold the highest standards of conduct. Managers, by virtue of their positions of leadership, are in addition accountable for acting as role models, and for creating a safe, respectful and harmonious working environment, free of fear, intimidation, hostility, and offence.

This checklist aims to support managers in fulfilling their responsibilities to foster and promote a work environment and culture that prevents and responds to sexual harassment in their respective teams and offices, in line with a victim/survivor centered approach, placing the victim/survivor’s needs, rights, dignity, and well-being at the center of any intervention. This checklist does not amend or replace the organization’s staff regulations, rules, or administrative issuances.