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This case study, written by Timmins, N. and Shevchenko, A., provides a comprehensive overview of the different ways the humanitarian community utilised research, evidence, and innovation within the initial year of the crisis response in Ukraine.
This comprehensive report released by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) documents instances of various attacks and threats in 2022 targeting healthcare facilities and personnel across 32 countries engulfed in armed conflict and political violence.
The Conflict Sensitivity Facility (CSF) released the following working paper, Making sense of ‘localisation’ in Sudan, it identifies and explores themes that are relevant to aid’s conflict sensitivity. Please note that this paper was written before conflict erupted in Sudan on…
The GISF Snapshot Annual Report January – December 2022 features some of GISF’s highlights of 2022 and serves to inform members, donors and stakeholders of the impact GISF has had on NGO security management during the reporting period. This is…
This report looks at examples of conflict events that have affected aid access and humanitarian efforts to address food insecurity in Ethiopia. It highlights how disinformation campaigns can undermine aid agencies’ humanitarian principles and how the increasing use of remotely…
In 2021, the first year of the Security Institute (SI) Inclusive Security Special Interest Group (ISSIG), a Diversity & Inclusion survey for the sector was carried out. The survey received 760 responses, of which 549 were from within the Security…
Signal Alert is an occasional publication of the Aid Security Database to inform the humanitarian sector of a statistically significant trend, change, or outlier detected in the security environment for aid operations.
Despite instances of women advancing to senior positions within the security field, by both traditional (second careers following time spent in the military, police or intelligence services) and non-traditional routes, at the global level women are under-represented within the security…
With more than 7 in 10 of its people in need of humanitarian assistance, South Sudan is a country beset by crisis. A particular area of concern for the country is its health care system. South Sudan has one of…
Women humanitarian workers play a critical role in ensuring women’s access to humanitarian assistance. In the context of many restrictions on women’s lives, women aid workers are indeed best placed to work around the barriers facing women and girls who…