Just before the August bank holiday weekend, I learned from our lead for disaster monitoring that ShelterBox might consider a response to the catastrophic flooding in Pakistan. Previously, we had sent a scoping team at very short notice…
Just before the 1000kg truck bomb exploded outside the UN headquarters in Baghdad’s Canal Hotel in August 2003, the humanitarians inside were going about a typical workday. Scores of people sitting in offices, lunching in the cafeteria, or…
Why now? It’s been ten years since a complex incident in Kenya prompted significant change within NGO SRM. The repercussions of the incident, particularly the court case brought by one affected, Steve Dennis, have been…
Previously, CBM merely invested in the security and safeguarding of its own staff. Offices and vehicles needed to be protected. Staff required training. While CBM staff occasionally travel in insecure areas, partner staff face the brunt of security…
We can’t talk about humanitarian security risk management (SRM) without first defining organisational duty of care. In the humanitarian space, duty of care refers to an organisation’s obligation to provide physical and mental safety to its staff. A…
I believe you have a personal experience that drove you to focus on providing updates on security incidents? On 08 May 2018, I was walking home from work, at that time as the president’s advisor on…
Keeping up with the technological innovations and new services in the humanitarian security risk management (SRM) sector has been identified as a key priority by our members given the proliferation of new products that offer immediate solutions cutting…
Humanitarian space is constantly being negotiated, and today's security managers are having to make ethical considerations as they work to keep aid workers safe. In part two of this blog series, based on Hugo Slim's keynote speech at the 2021 HNPW session: 'SRM in the Changing Global and Humanitarian Context', Slim explores the evolution of the humanitarian footprint, and the ethics of security risk management.
When we’re speaking about humanitarian security risk management, we’re talking about keeping people safe when they’re engaged in humanitarian action around the world. It’s important, therefore, to start by remembering that in 2019, 125 humanitarian workers were killed. 404…
Security training over the past 20+ years has mostly followed linear teaching methods that rely on the provision of information and/or technical tools as a means to appeal to logic and learning. While it may be effective, it can…