Recommendations for successful survivor engagement, and actions to avoid during collaborations with survivors
| Recommendations | Actions to avoid |
| Prioritisation of athlete safeguarding by sport leadership | Tokenism |
| Survivor-centred approach | Making decisions for survivors: telling the survivor what they can or cannot do |
| Implement trauma-informed training | Retraumatisation |
| Provide respectful and ethical support | Paternalistic communication |
| Follow-up on commitments and project outcomes | Inaction on commitments |
| Ensure safe institutional policies and procedures | Overprotection: excessive shielding or restricting the survivor’s behaviour |
| Engender survivor trust | Requests for testimony only |