Over the last decade, humanitarian work has grown in scale and effectiveness. This has helped to decrease the civilian death toll from war, armed conflict and disasters and has generally contributed to the protection of civilians.

At the same time, violence, insecurity, threats and deliberate obstructions are increasingly recognised as constraints to further assistance.

Latest News

We are monitoring open sources for the latest available information on COVID-19 developments impacting the security of response operations around the world.

Sahel Monitoring is a new series exploring violent and threatening incidents affecting aid operations, health care, education, civilians, refugees and IDPs in Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Niger.

What We Do

We work to protect aid delivery from future violence by providing information on the potential risks personnel face while delivering aid.

Humanitarian security risk management allows aid organisations greater access to and impact for crisis-affected populations while still meeting their duty of care obligations towards staff.

Having access to relevant, reliable and up-to date information is a key component in the risk security framework. Advocacy groups, policy-decision makers and academics also benefit from aid security incident information.

We collect information on events affecting aid workers, assets and programmes from open sources and verified reports shared by our partner aid agencies. This information is published in monthly, quarterly and special reports.