Guidelines for Using AirBnB for Business
Policy Guidance
This document (2017) contains guidelines for using AirBnb for business travel, featuring tips and advice from a number of anonymised NGOs.
Guidance Material 2018 English
Resources
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International ISOS Foundation Travel Risk Mitigation Toolbox
NGO Security Management
This toolbox (2014) provides an essential checklist that suggests health and security measure to be taken by organisations to fulfill their responsibilities and implement a travel risk and emergency management system.
Tool 2018 English
Communicating Risk in Public Health Emergencies
Humanitarian Programmatic Issues, Policy Guidance
These guidelines (2017) provide overarching evidence-based guidance on how risk communication should be practiced in an emergency. The recommendations in this document also guide countries on building capacity for communicating risk in health emergencies.
Guidance Material 2018 English
BSI Organizational Resilience Cranfield Research Report
Policy Guidance
This document (2017) features evidence on organizational resilience based on research conducted by the British Standards Institute and the Cranfield School of Management. The assessment covers 181 articles and is supplemented by five case studies.
Report 2018 English
BSI Organizational Resilience Index Report 2017
Policy Guidance
This index report (2017) highlights a number of insights that are outlined in the Organizational Resilience Report published by the British Standards Insititute and the Cranfield School of management.
Report 2018 English
Managing the safety, health and security of mobile workers
NGO Security Management
This International SOS Foundation guide (2016) advises on the management of the safety, health and security of mobile workers. In particular, the guide covers the need to: – have a safety and health policy in place that includes travel safety,…
Guides 2018 English
Global Framework: Safety, health and security for work-related international travel and assignments
NGO Security Management, Policy Guidance
These guidelines (2013) help organisations manage the risks associated with sending workers and their dependents on international long-term and short-term travel or assignments. It does so by setting out what the organisations need to know, and pay attention to.
Guidance Material 2018 English
Risk-Aware or Risk-Averse (Members only content)
NGO Security Management
This paper written by Andrea Schneiker (2018) investigates the implementation of security risk management systems in European and U.S. NGOs. It considers the way that security risk management systems are perceived and appropriated with organisations to identify organisational barriers.
Academic Resource 2018 English
Disturbing Material and Secondary Trauma Guidelines (Members only content)
NGO Security Management, Safety
This poster contains guidelines for managers and staff for dealing with disturbing material and limiting secondary trauma.
Guidance Material 2018 English
Advice for travellers when large electronics are not allowed in hand luggage (Members only content)
Equipment
This document contains advice for travellers using airlines or flying to destinations that prohibit carrying large electronic items in hand luggage.
Guidance Material 2018 English