HNPW & GISF | Survey on Incident support in aid organisations launched
This year GISF is hosting several sessions within the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) again. The HNPW provides a unique forum…
24 Jan 2022 News
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GISF x Hostage International: Supporting families of hostages – best practice from the family perspective
Wednesday 16th February, 2:00pm-3:30pm GMT / 9:00am-10:30 EST Join GISF and Hostage International alongside the founders of its sister charity Hostage Italia, a former hostage…
24 Jan 2022 Event
GISF Podcast | Inclusive Security E3: Inclusive security at the UN
This is the third episode of GISF’s new Inclusive Security Podcast Series. This episode focuses on inclusive security at the UN featuring guest speaker Catherine Plumridge from the UN Department of Safety & Security (UNDSS). About the series: The Inclusive…
13 Jan 2022 Resource
New module from ‘Keeping Up With COVID-19’ series now available
In the latest module from our Keeping up with COVID-19 series, how to address digital risks is considered by author James Davis. The impact of…
5 Jan 2022 News
Keeping up with COVID-19: essential guidance for NGO security risk managers – Module A4: Digital Security
Module A4: ‘Digital Security’ is in Section (A) ‘Policy and Planning’ of our three part series ‘Keeping up with COVID-19: Essential guidance for NGO security risk management’. As we move further into the 21st Century, life becomes increasingly complex and…
4 Jan 2022 Resource
Achieving Safe Operations through Acceptance: challenges and opportunities for security risk management
Acceptance is one of the three pillars of humanitarian organisations’ security risk management (SRM) strategies to ensure both access to populations affected by conflict and disaster and the safety of their staff and programmes. However, the current context raises questions…
21 Dec 2021 Resource
Keeping up with COVID-19: essential guidance for NGO security risk managers – Module B8: Acceptance and the changing security environment
Module B8: ‘Acceptance and the changing security environment’ is in Section (B) ‘Operational Security’ of our three part series ‘Keeping up with COVID-19: Essential guidance for NGO security risk management’. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the security environment in which…
15 Dec 2021 Resource
ACAPS – Humanitarian Access Overview
ACAPS Humanitarian Access Overview provides a snapshot of the most challenging contexts for humanitarian access. ACAPS analysts considered nine variables to rank and compare humanitarian access levels worldwide. Crisis-affected populations in more than 70 countries are not receiving the humanitarian…
13 Dec 2021 Resource
GISF Why I’m Vaxxed: personal stories from aid workers around the world
Therefore, at the request of members and others from the wider humanitarian community, GISF have put together some short videos to encourage staff to have…
6 Dec 2021 News
Haiti: Situation Report: Gangs and the Haitian State
This document provides an analysis of the current situation in Haiti and the implications for aid agencies.
5 Dec 2021 Resource