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In this GISF webinar, Raquel Vazquez Llorente, GISF Research Advisor and Atish Gonsalves, Founder of Mobilize.life discuss the opportunities and challenges of integrating serious gaming technology into NGO security training. The webinar explores how new technologies can be used when training humanitarian staff to respond…
Emerging technology can be used for training humanitarian staff to respond effectively to the increasingly complex needs that arise following disasters, particularly when responding to security incidents and executing emergency plans. Creating realistic exercises during the training is crucial to…
Information communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly becoming a defining component of twenty-first century humanitarian response operations during both natural disasters and armed conflict. ICTs have changed how information is communicated and received during crises. It may even be changing how…
Issue 64 of the Humanitarian Exchange Magazine, published by the Humanitarian Practice Network (Overseas Development Institute, ODI), focuses on the Ebola crisis in West Africa. In their article for the magazine, GISF Executive Coordinator Lisa Reilly and GISF Researcher Raquel…
Ce manuel (2015) a été conçu pour présenter de manière simplifiée les démarches qu’il est recommandé d’entreprendre pour ouvrir un bureau dans un pays où le marché de l’immobilier est susceptible d’être complexe et/ou confus. Bien que ce manuel fasse…
The GISF Brussels Forum 2015 was held in La Tricoterie, Brussels on the 11th and 12th March 2015. Here the notes transcribed by Jessica MacLean and edited by Ruth Quinn are listed under each session title. Please note that sessions…
Businesses are increasingly partnering with governments to directly deliver humanitarian assistance. NGOs are also partnering with businesses, both to fundraise for programmes and in programme delivery in fragile contexts. How can all actors fit well in the limited space previously…
This case study examined a controversial Twitter message, in light of the fact that the actions, or inactions, of one person can seriously affect the safety and security of all staff. What are the obligations of NGO’s to other NGO’s, and does…
This session addressed various experiences of organisations and government actors working in Liberia, Guinea and Sierre Leone during the Ebola outbreak, as well as an academic view on the military deployment during the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) response. The significant…
This session addressed pertinent considerations for occasions when a safe room is required in a country or field office. The difficulties security managers come across when establishing the room and how these difficulties should be mitigated were also discussed. Candice Roggeveen…