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Managing international travel and emergency repatriation

Managing international travel and emergency repatriation table
Date30 Apr 2020
Time2:00 pm — 3:00 pm BST |9:00 am—10:00 am EDT
Provider Bond
AddressOnline
Type Virtual
CostFree
Booking URLhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/managing-international-travel-and-emergency-repatriation-tickets-103504593024?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
Description
Free webinar on what Covid-19 means for travel and in-country programmes, including emergency repatriation and duty of care.

About this Event

Get the latest information and guidance on how to manage your travel, repatriation and duty of care for staff while delivering programmes in-country.

This session features experts from Key Travel, a global travel management company specialising in the humanitarian, faith and education sectors.

In this session, you’ll learn about:

  • Emergency repatriation of staff during a crisis
  • What duty of care to employees means and how to implement an effective travel policy
  • How NGOs are managing travel during border closures, including ensuring the safety of their employees
  • Key learnings on safeguarding and planning for the future: best practice, travel tools and techniques
  • Importance of a travel management company.

The webinar is free for Bond members and is especially relevant to those working in HR, operations, programmes and project management.

This webinar is part of a series we’re running to support NGOs in this time of Covid-19 uncertainty.

The session will be on Thursday 30 April, starting at 2.00pm UK time, it will run for approx. 1 hour.

See this event on the Bond website.

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