GISF Webinar | The Challenges of Humanitarian Acceptance
Acceptance is one of the founding pillars of NGOs’ security risk management (SRM) strategies to ensure both humanitarian access and the safety of their staff…
29 Mar 2022 Event
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Acceptance
‘Who Can Sing the Song of MSF?’ The Politics of ‘Proximity’ and Performing Humanitarianism in Eastern DRC
This article explores the everyday practice of security management and negotiations for access conducted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Based on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews and archival exploration, it examines…
27 Jan 2022 Resource
Humanitarian Shapeshifting: Navigation, Brokerage and Access in Eastern DR Congo
This article examines the experience of Congolese humanitarians negotiating access with armed groups in eastern DRC. It describes how humanitarians become shapeshifters: they play different roles for different audiences as a tactic of social navigation in a context of uncertainty.…
27 Jan 2022 Resource
When to evacuate? – diplomatic pressure and acceptance challenges for international NGOs in Ethiopia
Over the past few weeks, we have seen increasing pressure by the Ethiopian government on the humanitarian community over the Tigray crisis. This pressure has…
12 Jan 2022 Blog
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
GISF COVID-19 Webinar | Recording
GISF’s COVID-19 webinar featured insights from our upcoming Keeping up with COVID 19: essential guidance for NGO security risk managers modules: Working with partners and the localisation agenda; Acceptance and the changing security environment; and Digital Security. There was also…
15 Dec 2021 Resource
NGOs Need to Take Responsibility for their Private Security Contracting Practices
Over the last decade, many humanitarian organisations have increasingly used private security providers (PSPs) to manage security risks. Generally, contracted guards posted in front of…
15 Dec 2021 Blog
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
Behind the Scenes: Safe Humanitarian Action
Behind the Scenes: Safe Humanitarian Action An event for students, faculty, and young professionals focused on international development and humanitarian assistance studies. Are you interested…
23 Sep 2021 Event
HNPW & GISF | Session Outcomes, Summary Briefs and Recordings | 2021
Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) The Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) is the annual event of the LEP (leading-edge programme) and the largest event of its kind. Every year, the HNPW brings together more than 2000 experts in…
22 Jul 2021 Resource