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Contracting Private Security Providers is the latest module added to GISF Security to go: a risk management toolkit for humanitarian aid agencies. This new module provides easy to follow guidance on how to contract private security providers (PSPs), including how to select…
Since its inception, humanitarian security risk management has developed rapidly. In recent years, the profession has evolved from the ‘compounds and barbed wire’ activities it used to be known for, shifting to include staff safeguarding, wellbeing, digital security and more.…
Standard operating procedure for recruitment and management of guards and management of private security companies.
The aim of these procedures is to reduce safety, security and health risks for our staff and third parties as they engage in our mission work.
A form available to be completed in relation to site risk assessment.
A guide to airline safety to minimise risk for staff when flying.
The provision and protection of health care in conflicts is foundational to international humanitarian law (IHL), and in every humanitarian emergency, health workers represent a vital cadre of responders. Yet flagrant violations of these protections and commitments continue in war…
For some, the digitisation of the humanitarian sphere is a crisis. For others, it’s a door to a world of unforeseen opportunities. Whatever way you look at it, digitisation has the potential to present real risks to NGOs and their…
A guidance document on the responsibilities of guards.
This GISF webinar, which took place on Thursday 23rd July, looked back at the framing of acceptance as a security management approach, how acceptance is used today and opportunities for the future. Speakers: Dr Larissa Fast of the University of…