Key Learnings from the 2019 GISF Forum in Eschborn
This GISF blog by Research Trainee Aisling Sweeney offers an insight into some of the key discussions from the March 2019 GISF Members Forum in Germany.
17 Apr 2019 Blog
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Call for research proposals
GISF is seeking to hire a research consultant to carry out research for its forthcoming publication on Partnerships and Security Risk Management: from the local partner perspective.
15 Apr 2019 News
The Humanitarian Metadata Problem: “Doing no harm” in the Digital Era
New technologies continue to present great risks and opportunities for humanitarian action. To ensure that their use does not result in any harm, humanitarian organisations must develop and implement appropriate data protection standards, including robust risk assessments. However, this requires…
12 Apr 2019 Resource
CCHN Field Manual on Frontline Humanitarian Negotiation
The CCHN Field Manual (2018) builds on the collective experience and perspectives of numerous humanitarian practitioners working in some of the most challenging conflict environments. It offers a set of concrete tools and methods to plan and prepare negotiation processes…
6 Mar 2019 Resource
Saving Guatemala’s Fight Against Crime and Impunity
This report (2018) delivers research by International Crisis Group, which has for the first time quantified the positive impact of the UN’s Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). The findings show how CICIG’s justice reform activities since 2007 helped contribute…
22 Jan 2019 Resource
Eight Principles for Building Trust Through Feedback
This paper (2018) has been put together by the Bond Feedback and Accountability Learning Group (FALG) and sets out best practice principles for developing an accountable feedback mechanism capable of building a safe environment in which safeguarding concerns, within the…
22 Jan 2019 Resource
Going Local, Going Safely
On 28 June 2018, the ICRC, GISF and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) organised an event at the Humanitarium to discuss the security challenges posed by the global push towards the “localisation” of humanitarian action.
28 Jun 2018 Resource
NGOs and Risk II: a new study by InterAction and Humanitarian Outcomes
InterAction and Humanitarian Outcomes have launched the second phase of the study 'NGOs and Risk', which will focus on risk management within partnerships between national/local and international NGOs. See the survey shared.
24 Apr 2018 News
Stay Safe. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies: Security Unit Annual Report 2016
This is the 2016 annual report from the Security Unit of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). This report contains four sections: Section I: Global Statistics – Humanitarian Security. Section II: Compliance with Secretary General directives.…
10 Apr 2017 Resource
Oxford Guidance on the Law Relating To Humanitarian Relief Operations In Situations of Armed Conflict
In armed conflicts across the world, millions of civilians need emergency assistance to survive, but all too often fighting parties prevent this relief from reaching them. The Oxford Guidance on the Law Relating to Humanitarian Relief Operations in Situations of…
5 Jan 2017 Resource