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      Insecurity – always an insurmountable obstacle?

      Humanitarian Programmatic Issues, NGO Security Management, Safety

      This paper by Pete Buth (Médecins sans frontières, 2017), drawing partly on some of the findings of the study, attempts to offer a reflection on the subject of risk acceptance, and some of the underlying factors that –apart from the…

      Report 2017 English

      Dying for humanitarian ideas

      Humanitarian Programmatic Issues, NGO Security Management, Policy Guidance, Safety

      This paper examines how the production of images and statistics and the normalising of security management, and argues that these appear to have contributed towards rehabilitating the idea of acceptable humanitarian sacrifice.

      Article 2017 English

      Mission Ready Annual Report

      NGO Security Management

      This report (2017) is the impact assessment for the first year of the Mission Ready: Field Security Management online learning course, which launched in October 2015.

      Report 2017 English

      Voluntary Guidelines on the Duty of Care to Seconded Civilian Personnel

      Legal Obligations, NGO Security Management

      The Voluntary Guidelines on the Duty of Care to Seconded Civilian Personnel (2017) harmonise an understanding of the implementation of duty of care. They are designed to serve as a basis for clarification and exchange between seconding and receiving organisations…

      Guidance Material 2017 English

      Security Risk Management: a basic guide for smaller NGOs

      Legal Obligations, NGO Security Management, Policy Guidance, Safety

      This guide (2017) aims to be a simple, easy-to-use security resource to help smaller NGOs demystify security risk management. By setting out the elements of a basic security risk management framework, this guide aims to support NGOs in translating their…

      Guides, Guidance Material 2017 English GISF publication

      Impunity Must End: Attacks on health in 23 countries in conflict in 2016

      Context Analysis, Humanitarian Programmatic Issues, NGO Security Management

      The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition announces the publication of Impunity Must End, its fourth annual report on attacks on health around the world. The report documents attacks on health workers, health facilities, and patients in 23 countries in conflict in 2016. Its…

      Report 2017 English

      ACT Gender Security Guidelines

      Gender, Humanitarian Programmatic Issues, Legal Obligations, NGO Security Management, Policy Guidance

      ACT have developed these guidelines (2017) to introduce the concept of gender security for all staff, to serve as a tool to ensure duty of care and to allow human resources to ensure equal, unbiased and open employment standards, while…

      Guidance Material 2017 English

      MENA Region Humanitarian Safety & Security Forum

      NGO Security Management

      The MENA Region Humanitarian Safety & Security Forum was created in September 2015 after a meeting of INGOs comprising regional safety & security actors.  A need was identified for a regional-level fora where like-minded organizations could network and share information in the…

      Other 2017 English

      Travel Risk Assessment Form Example

      Context Analysis, Humanitarian Programmatic Issues, NGO Security Management, Safety

      This is an example of an organisational travel risk assessment.

      Training Document 2017 English

      Tightening the Purse Strings: What Countering Terrorism Financing Costs Gender Equality and Security

      Gender, Humanitarian Programmatic Issues, Legal Obligations

      With a gender focus, this report (2017) outlines the five main categories of adverse impacts that countering terrorism financing measures have had on grassroots women’s organisations, inter-governmental actors, non-governmental organisations, governmental agencies, donors (including women’s funders groups), and financial institutions.…

      Report 2017 English