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This is the third episode of GISF’s new Inclusive Security Podcast Series. This episode focuses on inclusive security at the UN featuring guest speaker Catherine Plumridge from the UN Department of Safety & Security (UNDSS). About the series: The Inclusive…
Module A4: ‘Digital Security’ is in Section (A) ‘Policy and Planning’ of our three part series ‘Keeping up with COVID-19: Essential guidance for NGO security risk management’. As we move further into the 21st Century, life becomes increasingly complex and…
Acceptance is one of the three pillars of humanitarian organisations’ security risk management (SRM) strategies to ensure both access to populations affected by conflict and disaster and the safety of their staff and programmes. However, the current context raises questions…
GISF’s COVID-19 webinar featured insights from our upcoming Keeping up with COVID 19: essential guidance for NGO security risk managers modules: Working with partners and the localisation agenda; Acceptance and the changing security environment; and Digital Security. There was also…
Module A3: ‘Working with partners and the localisation agenda’ is in Section (A) ‘Policy and Planning’ of our three part series ‘Keeping up with COVID-19: Essential guidance for NGO security risk management’. The COVID-19 pandemic has – by necessity –…
Module B8: ‘Acceptance and the changing security environment’ is in Section (B) ‘Operational Security’ of our three part series ‘Keeping up with COVID-19: Essential guidance for NGO security risk management’. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the security environment in which…
Over the last decade, many have witnessed the increasing presence of private security providers (PSPs) in humanitarian organisations’ security risk management practices. Generally, contracted guards posted in front of compounds are the most visible manifestation of this, and have become…
Many aid organisations have highlighted the difficulties of managing vaccination requirements, and vaccine hesitancy in their operations. Therefore, at the request of members and others from the wider humanitarian community, GISF have put together some short videos to encourage staff…
This is the second episode of GISF’s new Inclusive Security Podcast Series. This episode focuses on operationalising inclusivity featuring guest speaker Araba Cole from the International Rescue Committee (IRC). About the series: The Inclusive Security Podcast Series explores inclusivity through…
On 5 November, GISF held the Behind the Scenes: Safe Humanitarian Action webinar, an event for students, faculty, and young professionals focused on international development and humanitarian assistance studies. Are you interested in how humanitarians deliver aid to those in…