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This report examines how risk is perceived and managed in partnerships between international and national NGOs working in humanitarian response. It follows from the 2016 report NGOs and Risk: How International Humanitarian Actors Manage Uncertainty, which was also produced by…
New technologies continue to present great risks and opportunities for humanitarian action. To ensure that their use does not result in any harm, humanitarian organisations must develop and implement appropriate data protection standards, including robust risk assessments. However, this requires…
This report synthesises the conference Reviewing the State of Safety in World Cities: Safer Cities +20, held in Geneva from 6-8 July 2016. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) established the Global Safer Cities Programme in 1996. Twenty years…
Considerable attention in the aid world and media is currently directed at the concept of safeguarding. Although the word has mostly been used in reference to the safeguarding of beneficiaries, in this article (2019), Megan Nobert explores the safeguarding of…
New GISF article 'Safeguarding Aid Workers' published open-access.
GISF attended the UK Parliamentary International Development Committee evidence session on Violence against Aid Workers last week on the 3rd of April, 2019.
This guide (2019) aims to help Peace Corps staff to be prepared to respond effectively, compassionately, and in a trauma-informed way to Volunteers who have been the victim of sexual assault. This document focuses on the reporting of incidents and…
In this article (2019) for the Travel Risk Review, Adelicia Fairbanks, Research Advisor at GISF, discusses the changing makeup of aid organisations and associated shifts in risk profiles. You can download the article via the link below. The full Travel…
Aid agencies have a duty of care to respond to incidents of sexual violence against their staff. Sexual violence in all its forms violates human rights. Incidents of this kind are deeply distressing for the survivor, their family, their colleagues…
GISF is proud to launch its new guide: Managing Sexual Violence against Aid Workers: prevention, preparedness, response and aftercare.