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The Cost of Security Risk Management for NGOs

The Cost of Security Risk Management for NGOs (2013) explores the costs related to safety and security management for aid programmes. It aims to assist all aid practitioners to determine their risk management expenditure more accurately, and demonstrate an evidence-based…

Gender and Security: Guidelines for mainstreaming gender in security risk management

Gender and security is a complex issue, and this research by Christine Persaud (2014) found that there are different levels of comprehension of what it means in humanitarian and development assistance practice. The differences in gendered behaviour, bias, and learning have…

Security Management and Capacity Development: International agencies working with local partners

This GISF report (2012) provides an analysis of the issues surrounding the relationship between NGO’s and their local partners. It includes a section on the topic and its background, responsabilities towards the partner organisation and particularly in terms of security,…

Engaging Private Security Providers: A Guideline for Non-Governmental Organisations

Over the past decade humanitarian agencies have increasingly made use of Private Security Providers (PSPs) to support their security requirements. This briefing paper provides guidelines that offer an approach for assessing the viability of involvement of PSPs by NGOs. The…

Engager les services d’entreprises de sécurité privées : orientations à l’intention des organisations non gouvernementales

Ces orientations ont pour objet d’aider les ONG humanitaires à prendre une décision en connaissance de cause sur quand, comment et dans quelles conditions, recourir aux services d’une ESP. Ces orientations sont destinées aux responsables opérationnels des ONG au niveau…

From security management to risk management. Critical reflections on aid agency security management and the ISO risk management guidelines

Humanitarian Safety and Security: Obligations and responsibilities towards local implementing partners

Commissioned by Church World Service Pakistan/Afghanistan, this background paper (2011) aims to influence further debate and policy developments concerning safety and security for aid workers. Specifically, the paper addresses the core theme of responsability. It will address questions of who…

Managing Aid Agency Security in an Evolving World: The Larger Challenge

This GISF article by Koenraad Van Brabant (2010) considers security management by international aid agencies against the realities of an evolving wider world. It describes the broad challenge of ‘acceptance’ which stretches far beyond the management capacity of security personnel,…

Race against time: the countdown to the referenda in Southern Sudan and Abyei

This 2010 paper by Aly Verjee looks at the two upcoming referenda in Sudan as specified in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement. The two referenda are the most critical events in the contemporary history of Sudan. The key areas of…

Crime, politics and violence in post-Earthquake Haiti

In this 2010 peacebrief by Louis-Alexandre Berg and the United States Institute of Peace, the rise of crimes in Haiti after the earthquakes are analysed. “Crime and violence is increasing in Haiti because significant numbers of prisoners (around 5000) escaped…