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In this 15-minute Ready to Go Mobile Guide, you will learn how relief and development organisations can effectively manage safety and security incident information. Insecurity Insight designed this guide in collaboration with the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation for safety and security…
This research paper complements GISF’s 2012 report Security Management and Capacity Development: International agencies working with local partners. This first analysis brought key insights into partnership dynamics, including strengths and weaknesses from the international NGO (INGO) perspective. The latest research…
Open Briefing is a unique not-for-profit service provider. We defend, strengthen and empower humanitarians and human rights defenders around the world by keeping them and…
Contracting Private Security Providers is the latest module added to GISF Security to go: a risk management toolkit for humanitarian aid agencies. This new module provides easy to follow guidance on how to contract private security providers (PSPs), including how to select…
Since its inception, humanitarian security risk management has developed rapidly. In recent years, the profession has evolved from the ‘compounds and barbed wire’ activities it used to be known for, shifting to include staff safeguarding, wellbeing, digital security and more.…
Standard operating procedure for recruitment and management of guards and management of private security companies.
The aim of these procedures is to reduce safety, security and health risks for our staff and third parties as they engage in our mission work.
A form available to be completed in relation to site risk assessment.
A guide to airline safety to minimise risk for staff when flying.
The provision and protection of health care in conflicts is foundational to international humanitarian law (IHL), and in every humanitarian emergency, health workers represent a vital cadre of responders. Yet flagrant violations of these protections and commitments continue in war…