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Humanitarian Programmatic Issues
Open NGO Security Policy
Guideline provided by the Centre for Safety and Development (2011). This NGO Security Policy is for guidance only, for small NGOs without field offices or expats. It has to be tailored to the characteristics of your organisation, mandate and context.
The UK’s review of humanitarian aid: an agenda of radical change?
This two page document by the ODI (Overseas Development Institute, 2011) summarises the Humanitarian Emergency Response Review (HERR) commissioned by the UK government to look into how the UK should respond to rapid-onset humanitarian emergencies. It claims the HERR gives a very…
Security Guidelines
This Security Guidelines should be seen as an extension of any organisation’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in the Country Security Plan. Whereas the SOPs are obligatory, the Guidelines may not be. They act as a guide in various situations and…
Risk in humanitarian action: Towards a common approach?
This report by Victoria Metcalfe, Ellen Martin and Sara Pantuliano (HPG- the Humanitarian Policy Group, 2011), depicts “the range of contextual, propragmmatic and institutional risks involved in humanitarian action, how these risks are viewed and managed by the humanitarian community.…
Humanitarian Emergency Response Review: UK Government Response
“Lord Ashdown’s Humanitarian Emergency Response Review (HERR) has raised the bar for the UK Government. It has given direction, reminded us of key principles and outlined a new approach to ensure we are fit to respond to emergencies in the…
South Sudan 2010 – Between a Rock and a Hard: Place Displacement and Reintegration in post-referendum Southern Sudan
This reports by the NRC (Norwegian Refugee Council, 2010) expands on the analysis of an earlier NRC report entitled Southern Sudan 2010: Mitigating a Humanitarian Crisis (February 2010), in examining displacement and reintegration challenges in pre- and post-referendum Southern Sudan.…
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,…
Guide to Producing Operational Requirements for Security Measures
The aim of this guide (2010) by the CPNI (Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure) is to ensure that appropriate security measures are recommended to manage the risk to a level acceptable to all stakeholders. It introduces the concept…
The Information Management Challenge: A Briefing on information security for humanitarian Non-Governmental Organisations in the field
This document describes the “information management challenge” – that of ensuring the security of sensitive information in the difficult conditions that may exist in many field offices, and where the risk of surveillance is present – and posits potential solutions…