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Global Interagency Security Forum

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GISF expertise

If you're interested in learning more about security risk management in the aid sector and how it enables access and sustainability, we're here to help. Get in touch with us to discuss future collaboration opportunities.

As well as contributing to publications such as the ICRC Blog and Humanitarian Exchange, we regularly provide expertise for events run by organisations such as the Charity Commission, DG ECHO and ICoCA. We also work with partner institutions like The University of Lille and IE Business School Madrid to deliver lectures and devise syllabuses. Discover some of our key areas of expertise below.

Organisation Specific Events

  • Local partners and SRM at Wateraid
    04 Nov 2020

    On November 3rd 2020, Léa, Research Advisor at GISF collaborated with WaterAid as part of their Safer WaterAid Week. She presented the findings and recommendations from GISF research paper, Partnerships and Security Risk Management: from the local partner’s perspective.

    Léa was also joined by John Ede, co-chair of the Charter for Change (C4C) Advocacy Working Group and President of Ohaha family foundation in Nigeria, who reflected on his own experiences of capacity strengthening on security at a local level.

    Too often it is seen that security is rarely discussed or prioritised within partnership agreements between INGOs and local NGOs, meaning that security risks are simply transferred onto local partners and opportunities to share or build capacity with them are lost. This event was an opportunity to trigger conversations on the topic at WaterAid and fuel their ongoing work on improving partnerships with local actors.

     

GISF specialises in various topics which can be explored in the 'themes' page of our website. We especially focus on the following.