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Access is the central and overriding problem in humanitarian action. Defined as both people’s ability to reach aid and aid’s ability to reach people, humanitarian access is the precondition for effective and principled emergency response. The worst conflict-driven humanitarian crises…
GISF’s Project and Membership Officer for Europe, Laura Van de Vloet, recently sat down for an interview with The Minerva Mission, to discuss Women in…
A few months after the realisation of the first hybrid GISF Forum, Laura Van de Vloet, Project and Membership Officer at GISF shares her reflections on the three days event and how GISF is adapting to the pandemic.
Abstract: Humanitarian aid workers are an overlooked population within the structure of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research and assistance. This negligence is an industry-wide failure to address aid workers’ psychological health issues. The suspected numbers of death by suicide, diagnosed…
GISF is pleased to announce the addition of a new module, ‘Preparing for the “new normal”’, to its series ‘Keeping up with COVID-19: Essential guidance for NGO…
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 new ways of working with COVID-19, and…
GISF’s last webinar of 2020 will focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has impacted operations around the world, and the work of the…
In The New Humanitarian’s recent investigation with Thomson Reuters Foundation, they uncovered claims by more than 50 Congolese women who say they were sexually…
GISF ‘Digital Security’ is now available on Disaster Ready’s website! We partnered with Disaster Ready to turn our ‘Digital Security’ module into a short,…
The mobile guides ‘Security Risk Management Toolkit’ are now available in Arabic! Building on our Security to Go guide, we worked with Disaster…