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With humanitarian aid delivery being carried out by workers on the ground, remote sensing technology can be used to better coordinate efforts and to generally build up a better response to emergencies. It could also provide security risk managers with valuable information that can be used to increase the safety of workers in the delivery of aid.
GISF Executive Coordinator Lisa Reilly and GISF Researcher Raquel Vazquez-Llorente co-authored an article, titled "Organisational risk management in high-risk programmes: the non-medical response to the Ebola outbreak", featured in the June edition of the Humanitarian Exchange Magazine.
GISF will be taking part in the 2015 Humanitarian Innovation Conference, held by the Humanitarian Innovation Project, in partnership with the World Humanitarian Summit, in Oxford on 17 and 18 July 2015
Effective coordination is the key to the delivery of a successful humanitarian aid response, as it allows different actors working in the same area to share information and harmonise interventions, thus proving better support to people in need and to aid workers in the field.
In this toolkit, Diane E. Davis (2015) analyses eight-case studies of cities suffering from a history of violence (Johannesburg, Karachi, Kigali, Managua, Medellín, Mexico City, Nairobi,and São Paolo), identifying promising practices promoting urban resilience, as well as the obstacles. This toolkit is derived…
On April 30, GISF Executive Coordinator Lisa Reilly and Researcher Raquel Vazquez Llorente presented the publication Communications Technology and Humanitarian Delivery at the 36th Forum of the Working Group for Emergency Telecommunications (WGET) in Dubai. This was the first time the WGET included a session on humanitarian security. The content of the presentation is now available.
The 2014 annual report from the Security Unit of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). This report contains three sections: Section I: Global Statistics – Humanitarian Security Major attacks against humanitarian workers Red Cross Red…
The 2014 annual report annex of incidents statistics from the Security Unit of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The security incident analysis contains: Application Global number of security incidents decreasing Incident analysis by zones…
The purpose of this handbook (2014) is to lay out the existing international normative framework pertaining to humanitarian access in situations of armed conflict. The handbook includes background and purpose of the handbook, general international law, international humanitarian law, international…
Standardised hashtags can be used by governments and aid organisations to distribute information to the public, and respond to urgent needs and requests. The hashtags should be used interactively, coordinated and collaborated with between the sectors. Twitter users then tweet with the respective hashtags to notify governments and aid agencies about needs of affected communities and urgent requests.