
In early 2024, a group of NGOs launched Protect Aid Workers. This new mechanism provides financial assistance and legal aid to humanitarian workers facing security incidents or immediate threats...
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In early 2024, a group of NGOs launched Protect Aid Workers. This new mechanism provides financial assistance and legal aid to humanitarian workers facing security incidents or immediate threats...
GISF launches a glossary of terms to facilitate a common understanding of words and phrases frequently used in security risk management. In security risk management, acronyms and technical terms are...
The Global Interagency Security Forum’s latest publication delves into the humanitarian principle of neutrality, exploring how it can impact the delivery of aid and partnerships with local actors. ...
Having robust security risk management (SRM) strategies and policies is critical for any NGO to achieve its mission. But for too many organisations, these don’t exist. Even when they are in place,...
Protect Aid Workers is a new mechanism providing rapid grants up to €10,000 for aid workers and their families who have suffered critical incidents. Funding is intended to support their recovery and...
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...
Como un asunto de la política y práctica humanitaria, la gestión de riesgos de seguridad (GRS) se ha convertido en un campo de operación creciente y activo, aunque poco estudiado. En las últimas dos...
La gestion des risques de sécurité (GRS), comme sujet de politique et de pratique humanitaires, est un domaine d’opération actif et en pleine expansion, mais il reste pour l’essentiel peu étudié...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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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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...