By Abby Stoddard, Adelicia Fairbanks, Monica Czwarno, Meriah-Jo Breckenridge, Mariana Duque-Diez, Lisa Reilly, As a subject of humanitarian policy and practice, security risk management (SRM) has...
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Good Practices, lessons learned, and the unique challenges affecting security risk management in urban humanitarian responses
The Global Interagency Security Forum (GISF) has published a new research article identifying the unique security issues of urban environments, and the impact of these dynamics on a humanitarian...
NGO Crisis Management Exercise Manual: A guide to developing and facilitating effective exercises
About this manual This new GISF resource, created in collaboration with OSAC’s International Development Sector Committee (IDSC), dives into the design, preparation, delivery, and learning phases of...
Achieving Safe Operations through Acceptance: Challenges and opportunities for security risk management
Acceptance is one of the three pillars of humanitarian organisations' security risk management (SRM) strategies to ensure both access to populations affected by conflict and disaster and the safety...
Keeping up with COVID-19: essential guidance for NGO security risk managers
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact not only the security risks that NGOs face, but also the way risk treatment measures are developed, implemented, and communicated to staff. As we get used to...
Partnerships and Security Risk Management: A joint action guide for local and international aid organisations
Since attacks on aid workers have been recorded, local and national NGO (L/NNGO) aid workers worldwide have been the most exposed to security risks. As efforts to ‘localise’ aid carry on and with it,...
Health Workers at Risk: Added challenges of COVID-19
By: Christina Wille COVID-19 has shifted the important work carried out by health professionals to the forefront of all of our minds. Yet, despite the applause these workers often receive, they...
Managing Sexual Violence against Aid Workers: prevention, preparedness, response and aftercare
Aid agencies have a duty of care to respond to incidents of sexual violence against their staff. Sexual violence in all its forms violates human rights. Incidents of this kind are deeply distressing...
Managing security-related information: a closer look at incident reporting systems and software
By Gonzalo de Palacios | EISF publication This article briefly explores the technological platforms non-governmental organisations (NGOs) use to access and share security-related information,...
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Managing the Security of Aid Workers with Diverse Profiles
Executive Summary An aid worker’s personal security is impacted by the interplay between where the aid worker is, who they are, and their role and organisation. As employers, aid organisations have a...
Manuel de gestion de l’information issue des incidents de sécurité
INTRODUCTION À PROPOS DE CE MANUEL La gestion de l’information issue des incidents de sécurité (GIIS) est la collecte, la notification, l’enregistrement, l’analyse, le partage et l’utilisation des...
Manual de gestión de la información sobre incidentes de seguridad
INTRODUCCIÓN Acerca de este manual La gestión de información sobre incidentes de seguridad (GIIS) es la recopilación, el reporte, el registro, el análisis, el intercambio y uso de información (datos...
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Toolkit: Responding to Violence against Humanitarian Action on the Policy Level
Rationale and methods to share information, speak out, and challenge impunity in cases of violence against humanitarian action ATHA is pleased to share a new professional Toolkit for Responding to...
Seguridad en práctica: herramientas de gestión de riesgos para organizaciones de ayuda humanitaria
Introducción Acerca de la guía “Seguridad en práctica” “Seguridad en práctica” intenta proporcionar una guía simple y fácil de usar para personas no expertas en seguridad con el objeto de establecer...
Security Incident Information Management Handbook [EN/AR]
Introduction About this handbook Security incident information management (SIIM) is the collection, reporting, recording, analysis, sharing and use of information (including data) linked to a...
Humanitarian access in a changing world: why security risk management matters
This blog was written by Adelicia Fairbanks, EISF Research Advisor. The global debates currently surrounding humanitarian action and its future are being discussed widely in numerous fora and changes...
Security Risk Management: a basic guide for smaller NGOs
This guide aims to be a simple, easy-to-use security resource to help smaller NGOs demystify security risk management. By setting out the elements of a basic security risk management framework, this...
A glimpse into the March 2017 EISF Forum
This blog was written by Hélène Cardona, EISF Projects and Membership Officer. On the 23rd and 24th of March, 76 people working on or interested in NGO security risk management met in Brussels for...
From security levels to scenario planning
This op-ed was written by Gonzalo de Palacios. The opinions expressed in this op-ed belong to the author and do not reflect the opinions of the European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) or any...
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): 2017 Outlook
Social unrest marked Congo’s 2016 political climate. Such unrest was the result of the failure to organize the presidential election, which was scheduled for November. On the security front, violent...