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
Urban safety and security: Lessons from the last two decades and emergent issues
This report synthesises the conference Reviewing the State of Safety in World Cities: Safer Cities +20, held in Geneva from 6-8 July 2016. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) established the Global Safer Cities Programme in 1996. Twenty years…
12 Apr 2019 Resource
Suffering in Silence: the 10 most under-reported humanitarian crises of 2018
CARE’s report (2019) aims to shine a rare spotlight on those humanitarian crises that have been neglected by the global public. Now in its third year of publishing, the report, called Suffering In Silence, found that the food crisis in…
2 Apr 2019 Resource
Humanitarian Access overview
This report (2018) compares current humanitarian crises based on their level of humanitarian access. Affected populations in more than 40 countries are not getting proper humanitarian assistance due to access constraints. Out of 44 countries included in the report, nearly half of them are…
15 Mar 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
The Question of Access in Yemen
This blog by GISF Trainee Aisling Sweeney explores some of the barriers to access that humanitarian organisations face in Yemen, as well as possible responses to these challenges.
26 Feb 2019 Blog
Kidnap and Ransom Insight and Focus Article: The Militant Threat in The Sahel
This report covers global kidnapping trends and incidents for the months of November and December 2018, as well as January 2019. The report also includes a global overview of piracy threat and of cyber security threat, as well as a…
11 Feb 2019 Resource
Lessons for Your Travel Risk Management From a Kidnap
This document (2019) describes a kidnapping incident involving an Italian construction company in Libya, which was brought to court in 2015, and outlines the lessons learned from the case for travel security management.
4 Feb 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