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This article provides recommendations to States, the UN, the private sector and humanitarian organisations for mitigating the negative impact of CT measures and sanctions on principled humanitarian action. 

This article looks at the impact of growing risk aversion in relation to CT measures and sanctions among donors, humanitarian organizations and other actors on principled humanitarian action, and highlights recent efforts to address and mitigate these impacts.

This practical guide outlines actions for humanitarian organisations to consider throughout the programme cycle to help manage and mitigate counterterrorism-related risks.

This Risk Sharing Framework provides a basis for interested humanitarian actors to further pursue risk sharing as a means to enable more effective delivery of support to affected people.

By setting out the elements of a basic security risk management framework, this guide aims to support NGOs in translating their duty of care obligations into key processes and actions that will enhance their staff's security and improve their organisation’s reputation and credibility.

The 2023 Aid Worker Security Report discusses the trend of localised security risk reflected in the latest verified data, and examines an area of security risk management that exemplifies the disparities in the sector: security training. 

This book explores how the debate on security and the role of experts has evolved in the humanitarian sector as a whole and within MSF, examines the diagnosis and recommendations made by security risk management specialists, and provides an overview of contemporary MSF security practices.

In this article for the Crisis Response Journal, Aisling Sweeney, GISF’s Communications Officer, puts forward the case for remodelling funding processes for humanitarian security risk management.

This issue brief aims to broaden and enhance awareness of how sanctions regimes and their implementation may adversely impact principled humanitarian action and to propose ways in which the UN and its Member States can minimise this impact.

This study investigates how the humanitarian principles and other values factor into operational decision-making and coordinated action in Afghanistan.