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In the first instalment of a new monthly blog series entitled Understanding Us: new perspectives on risk, safety and resilience, Meredith Moore introduces how behavioural psychology relates to our safety.
This document, updated June 2019, lists the headquarters organisations that are counterparts of the UNDSS Saving Lives Together initiative.
La presente guía (2019) pretende ser un recurso de seguridad sencillo y fácil de usar que sirva a las ONG más pequeñas para romper mitos sobre la gestión de riesgos. Al establecer los elementos de un marco de gestión de…
A secure, encrypted app released by the team at Security First allows users to access open-source, up-to-date security information in one place.
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…
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…
This report (2018) compares current humanitarian crises based on their level of humanitarian access. Affected populations in more than 40 countries are not getting proper humanitarian assistance due to access constraints. Out of 44 countries included in the report, nearly half of them are…
DisasterReady announces collaboration with the International NGO Safety and Security Association (INSSA).
“Suddenly, talk of ‘safeguarding’ and a sector-wide ‘safeguarding crisis’ seems to be everywhere. Grappling with the scope and content of ‘safeguarding’ as a parameter of humanitarian practice, this commentary asks questions about the framing of safeguarding as a buzzword: about…