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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 Event On 9th April 2020, EISF relaunched as the Global Interagency Security Forum. On 15th April, we hosted virtual celebrations, bringing together voices (and ears) from all around the world. With speakers from our original network and beyond, the…
As part of the global humanitarian common services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, WFP is establishing critical passenger air transport services that ensure humanitarian staff, the UN, NGOs, the broader humanitarian community, and medical personnel can rapidly reach the…
As outlined in the Global Humanitarian Response Plan, WFP is setting up a comprehensive platform of services (2020) to enable the health and humanitarian community to deliver support to the most vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 pandemic, known as the…
The World Food Programme (WFP), as the largest humanitarian organisation with proven expertise in supply chain and logistics, is working closely with the World Health Organisation (WHO), the UN system and other humanitarian partners to deliver a global humanitarian response…
Security to go: a risk management toolkit for humanitarian aid agencies (2015) is intended to provide a simple, easy-to-use guide for non-security experts to quickly set up basic safety, security and risk management systems in new contexts or rapid onset emergency…
Shrinking editorial budgets have resulted in journalists increasingly turning to aid agencies to cover stories. At the same time, aid agencies are being pushed to be more media savvy in order to get their message out and to support advocacy…
This document, prepared by CARE International in 2020, explores some of the security implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. The events of recent weeks presented a wide range of challenges to the global community as the novel coronavirus and the infection…
Responders to the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) face tremendous challenges in halting the spread of infection, not the least of which is insecurity. Insecurity Insight reports that, between January and November 2019, there were more…
This academic article (2020) by Donald S. Bosch from the Headington Institute, explores the brain’s response to uncertainty and offers some guidance on how to look after yourself mental health during a pandemic.