Best Practices from the field in Saving Lives Together | GISF at HNPW
Summary The Saving Lives Together (SLT) initiative was created in recognition of the fact that the organisations of the UN Security Management System (UNSMS),…
23 Feb 2024 Event
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Protect Aid Workers: an innovative mechanism for safeguarding aid workers in high-risk environments | GISF at HNPW
Summary Humanitarian actors operate in insecure environments, such as conflict zones, which increases their exposure to violence. Over the last 5 years, 623 humanitarian…
23 Feb 2024 Event
GISF 2023 Annual Report | January – December 2023
The GISF Annual Report January – December 2023 features some of GISF’s initiatives, achievements, and challenges over the past year. It documents the efforts GISF has made to drive positive change in security risk management during the reporting period and…
2 Feb 2024 Resource
State of Practice: The Evolution of Security Risk Management in the Humanitarian Space
As a subject of humanitarian policy and practice, security risk management (SRM) has been an active and growing – yet largely understudied – area of operations. Only a small number of comprehensive, sector-wide analyses of SRM have been published over…
30 Jan 2024 Resource
Access to justice: Aid workers’ overlooked right to legal aid
In 2022, 444 aid workers were injured, kidnapped, or killed worldwide. Among the aid workers working on the front lines…
3 Jan 2024 Blog
OCHA | Global Humanitarian overview 2024 ( EN/FR/ES/AR)
The Global Humanitarian Overview is an annual assessment of global humanitarian needs and how to respond to them. This document provides an analysis of the drivers of needs and an overview of the resources required to support people targeted for…
2 Jan 2024 Resource
Good Practices, lessons learned, and the unique challenges affecting security risk management in urban humanitarian responses
This GISF research article identifies the unique elements in urban environments and the humanitarian security risk management (SRM) considerations resulting from these dynamics. With urbanisation on the rise worldwide and the proliferation of humanitarian responses in densely populated areas, understanding…
19 Dec 2023 Resource
Protecting humanitarian and health actors: a collective responsibility
Security threats facing humanitarian and health workers have hit record levels in recent years, with modern warfare taking a heavy toll on the sector. In…
21 Nov 2023 Blog
OCHA | Myanmar Humanitarian Response Plan 2023 Mid-Year Report (1 January to June 30 2023)
Changes in context Almost three years since the February 2021 military takeover, the people of Myanmar remain exposed to an unrelenting political, human rights, economic and humanitarian crisis. The dire situation is posing grave protection risks for civilians, limiting access…
18 Oct 2023 Resource
Insecurity Insight | Attacks on health care in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories (12-15 October 2023)
Since violence seriously escalated in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories on 07 October, Insecurity Insight has identified at least 94 incidents of violence against or obstruction of access to health care. Download the resource from the box on the…
18 Oct 2023 Resource