Security for NGOs & International Organizations
Security support tailored to the operating constraints and duty-of-care requirements of NGO and international staff.
The operating environment
Offices, guesthouses and staff residences, with movement between them and to programme locations — operating under a duty-of-care obligation to national and international staff that is defined outside the security contract.
What tends to go wrong here
Concerns characteristic of this environment — not a list of everything that can happen on any premises.
Duty of care as the standard
The measure is an obligation the organisation owes its staff and must be able to demonstrate to its own board and funders, not simply an acceptable level of loss.
Residences and guesthouses
Staff accommodation is where people are least supported and most predictable, and it is often chosen for convenience before it is assessed.
Movement between locations
Travel between office, residence and programme areas is where the organisation's own procedures usually carry the most weight and the least enforcement.
Information about people and places
Details of beneficiaries, staff movements and locations are sensitive in themselves, and security arrangements must not be the thing that publishes them.
What a programme prioritises
- Static arrangements at offices and residences assessed to one standard
- Movement and journey arrangements where the operating picture requires them
- Incident reporting in a form that satisfies an external reporting line
- A posture matched to acceptance, not only to hardening
Services that usually apply
A programme for this sector is normally built from these service lines. Which of them, and in what proportion, comes out of the security assessment.
Independent assessments, vulnerability analysis and risk management planning for organizations that need clarity before they act.
Threat monitoring, situational awareness and intelligence reporting that keeps security decisions grounded in the current environment.
Discreet close protection for executives, VIPs and visiting personnel, coordinated around itinerary, exposure and the principal's risk profile.
Security programs for corporate facilities, personnel, visitors and assets, designed to fit how the organization actually works.