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This study used thematic analysis to examine aid workers’ views on three research questions: their most common stressors, effective coping strategies and ineffective coping strategies. The study (2018) involved a wide range of aid workers (N = 218) living in…
Surge capacity is defined as the ability to scale-up (and down) resources smoothly and quickly, including getting the right people to the right places doing the right things in the shortest amount of time possible. The majority of humanitarian responses…
Developed by WHO and ICRC, in collaboration with the International Federation for Emergency Medicine, Basic Emergency Care (BEC): Approach to the acutely ill and injured is an open-access 2018 training course for frontline healthcare providers who manage acute illness and injury with…
This pilot study (2019) is one of the first to examine how competency-based eLearning training programs impact humanitarian work. Not only ‘how’ these have an impact, but specifically in ‘what ways’ the transfer of learning from these training program experiences…
This paper (2018) has been put together by the Bond Feedback and Accountability Learning Group (FALG) and sets out best practice principles for developing an accountable feedback mechanism capable of building a safe environment in which safeguarding concerns, within the…
Discussions had at the 2018 Humanitarian Congress Berlin on the handling of sensitive data in the humanitarian context highlight the benefits and risks associated with taking further steps to digitalise humanitarian action.
On 1st October, the CHS Alliance, in partnership with the ICRC, launched the 2018 Humanitarian Accountability Report, which considers the issue of change in relation to a range of topics from cash transfer programming to localisation.
An aid worker’s personal security is impacted by the interplay between where the aid worker is, who they are, and their role and organisation. As employers, aid organisations have a duty of care to take all reasonable measures to protect…
GISF is proud to launch its new research paper on how to manage the security of aid workers while being mindful of their diversity.
This document (2018) provides a summary of the Accelerating Localisation Through Partnerships project. This is an ECHO-funded programme aiming to accelerate localisation through the strengthening of local and national leadership of humanitarian response. The programme focuses on operational change for…