Library

Library

Guidance, research and reference material on security risk management for humanitarian organisations. Each entry carries a summary and a link to the document where one exists.

Duty of care and the law

• Duty of Care: a review of the Dennis v Norwegian Refugee Council ruling and its implications
• Can you get sued? Legal liability of international humanitarian aid organisations towards their staff
• Voluntary guidelines on the duty of care to seconded civilian personnel
• Duty of care in action: managing the loss of an employee overseas
• Duty of care: protection of humanitarian aid workers from sexual violence
• Deber de cuidado: marco juridico y principales herramientas

Risk assessment and management systems

• Security risk management: a basic guide for smaller NGOs
• Security to go: a risk management toolkit for humanitarian aid agencies
• Generic security guide for humanitarian organisations
• Risk assessment for personnel security
• Vulnerability assessment: training module
• Risk thresholds in humanitarian assistance
• Security audits
• Security perceptions survey

Incidents, crisis and hostile environments

• Security incident information management handbook
• Abduction and kidnapping: management and response
• Hostage negotiation
• Crisis management of a critical incident
• Family First: liaison and support during a crisis

People, profiles and behaviour

• Managing the security of aid workers with diverse profiles
• Gender and security: guidelines for mainstreaming gender in security risk management
• NGO safety and security training project
• The cost of security risk management for NGOs

Sexual violence and harassment

• Managing sexual violence against aid workers
• Safeguarding aid workers
• Study on ways and methods to eliminate sexual harassment in Egypt

Context, access and actors

• Understanding a new generation of non-state armed groups
• Ethno-religious conflicts in Nigeria
• Meta-level humanitarianism

Resources and communication

• Insurance for relief and development workers
• What is humanitarian communication?

Documents that were published under an earlier version of this site are listed in the resources library.