Risks Counter Terrorism IED/Bomb & Active Shooter Procedures
NGO Security Management, Safety
This guide (2017) provides an overview of procedures for dealing with IEDs/bomb and active shooters.
Guides 2018 English
Resources
From research papers to training packs, find the resources you need, all in one place. For GISF members, please log in to access member-only resources. For hard copies of any GISF resources, please contact research@gisf.ngo. If you would like to share a resource with GISF, please contact tolani@gisf.ngo.
Security Risk Assessment Tool
NGO Security Management
This free tool (2017) from Open Briefing provides a useful template for conducting risk assessments.
Tool 2018 English
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
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
InterHealth Alternatives (Members only content)
Humanitarian Programmatic Issues
This document contacts a list of contact details for organisations which offer services similar to those once offered by InterHealth.
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