With regular contributions from the GISF Secretariat and guest experts, the GISF Blog explores a range of topical, contextual and theoretical developments affecting the practice of humanitarian SRM.
Previously, CBM merely invested in the security and safeguarding of its own staff. Offices and vehicles needed to be protected. Staff required training.
We can’t talk about humanitarian security risk management (SRM) without first defining organisational duty of care. In the humanitarian space, duty of care…
I believe you have a personal experience that drove you to focus on providing updates on security incidents? On 08 May…
To mark this year’s pride month, GISF aimed to examine the specific risks faced by LGBTQIA+ colleagues in the humanitarian sector and how…
Keeping up with the technological innovations and new services in the humanitarian security risk management (SRM) sector has been identified as a key…
Humanitarian space is constantly being negotiated, and today's security managers are having to make ethical considerations as they work to keep aid workers safe. In part two of this blog series, based on Hugo Slim's keynote speech at the 2021 HNPW session: 'SRM in the Changing Global and Humanitarian Context', Slim explores the evolution of the humanitarian footprint, and the ethics of security risk management.
When we’re speaking about humanitarian security risk management, we’re talking about keeping people safe when they’re engaged in humanitarian action around the world. It’s…
Security training over the past 20+ years has mostly followed linear teaching methods that rely on the provision of information and/or technical tools as…
Context and complexity: Key findings Our study examined current issues, trends, questions, positive and negative impacts, and challenges raised in…
When the Taliban ramped up their offensive in May 2021, there were few indicators that it would lead to an immediate collapse of the…