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The events of the past several months have presented a wide range of challenges to the International NGO (INGO) community as COVID-19 has spread rapidly around the world. The operational realities of COVID-19 are causing organizations to create and adapt…
The events of the past several months have presented a wide range of challenges to the International NGO (INGO) community as COVID-19 has spread rapidly around the world. The operational realities of COVID-19 are causing organizations to create and adapt…
Humanitarian/development organisations have a duty of care to take all reasonable measures to protect their staff from foreseeable risks, including those that emerge due a staff member’s personal profile. Part of organisations’ duty of care obligations is to ensure that…
Module 11: ‘ Inclusivity and Security Risk Management’ is in section (B) ‘Operational Security’ of our three-part series ‘Keeping up with COVID-19: Essential guidance for NGO security risk management’. This module is intended to guide security risk managers to be…
Module 9: ‘Gender-based harassment and abuse risks for personnel’ is in section (B) ‘Operational Security’ of our three-part series ‘Keeping up with COVID-19: Essential guidance for NGO security risk management’. With quarantines, lockdowns and work from home orders, gender-based harassment…
Module 5: ‘Cost implications and donor requirements’ is in section (A) ‘Policy and Planning’ of our three-part series ‘Keeping up with COVID-19: Essential guidance for NGO security risk management’. In the first quarter of 2020, aid agencies found themselves beginning…
Our hope is to build on this method for future projects. This methodology is offered as a possible pathway for other organizations, policymakers, and implementing agencies to use in developing a racial equity lens for their work, whether inside or…
People of color in the United States are more likely to experience hunger and poverty because of structural racism. The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic reflect the impact of structural racism in our country.1 These preexisting inequities have only been…
Everyone has the right to a just and sustainable world in which they can thrive. But billions are still trapped in poverty and injustice. Today’s economic models have failed the world. Unjust systems have concentrated power in the hands of…
The IASC duty of care minimum standards guide IASC members and standing invitees (hereinafter ‘the IASC organizations’) in the implementation of adequate duty of care provisions in the context of COVID-19 for allof theirpersonnel regardless of nationality and contractual type.