Contingency Plan Template
This template (2010) covers decision making and management for lockdown, relocation and evacuation, providing definitions and criteria.
3 Mar 2010 Resource
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Safety
Safety First: A safety and security handbook for aid workers
Shaun Bickley through Safety First (2010) provides useful reminders and easy-reference chapters to be consulted as safety and security issues arise. Not only is this book essential reading for staff about to take up their first field positions, it should…
1 Jan 2010 Resource
Risk Thresholds in Humanitarian Assistance
This GISF Report (2011) examines how humanitarian organisations express their attitudes to risk, and considers how priorities at different organisational levels might be better integrated when decisions are made on whether to accept or reject certain risks. Section 1 reviews the risk management…
1 Jan 2010 Resource
Hostage negotiation in Columbia and the FARC: Deconstructing the problem
This paper by David J. Topel (2009) aims to deconstruct negotiation techniques and agreements in Colombia. It does not deal specifically with any particular hostage crisis event but gives a short introduction to the groups and history of conflict as…
1 Feb 2009 Resource
Challenges in Understanding and responding to crisis in urban contexts
This report by Paul McPhun and Elena Lucchi (2008) states that “there is now a growing international awareness that urbanization is becoming untenable, representing in some contexts a crisis that far outweighs the impact of ongoing conflict in remaining regions…
1 Mar 2008 Resource
Orange County Rape Crisis Center Sexual Assault Response Guidelines
A guide designed by the Orange County Rape Crisis Center (2008). The mission of the Orange County Rape Crisis Center is to stop sexual violence and its impact through support, education, and advocacy. The Center envisions a just and equitable…
22 Jan 2008 Resource
Seismic Risk Brochure
This brochure (2008) designed by the French governement and joint NGO gives recommendations -in French- of what to do in case of an earthquake, specifically in Guadeloupe.
1 Jan 2008 Resource
IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial support in Emergency settings
The primary purpose of these guidelines (2007) by the IASC (Inter-Agency Standing Committee) is to enable humanitarian actors and communities to plan, establish and coordinate a set of minimum multi-sectoral responses to protect and improve people’s mental health and psychosocial…
1 Jan 2007 Resource
The ‘protection crisis’: A review of field-based strategies for humanitarian protection in Darfur
This study aims to examine current practice in humanitarian protection and explore strategies, programmes and initiatives undertaken in different contexts to support the protection of civilians. Focusing on roles, outcomes and the internal and external limitations of humanitarian actors, the…
1 Dec 2006 Resource
Central America and Mexico gang assessment
The objectives of the Central America and Mexico Gang Assessment are to: (1) analyze the nature of gangs, their root causes, and other factors driving the phenomenon; (2) examine the transnational and regional aspects of gangs in Central America and…
1 Apr 2006 Resource