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Protecting Staff During International Development & Humanitarian Operations Amaury T. Cooper Director, Global Safety & Security | Education Development Center, Inc. Co-Founder; Secretary, Board of Directors | International NGO Safety


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Protecting Staff During International Development & Humanitarian Operations

Amaury T. Cooper

Director, Global Safety & Security | Education Development Center, Inc. Co-Founder; Secretary, Board of Directors | International NGO Safety & Security Association

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Aid Worker Security Incidents, 2004 - 2014

Courtesy of Aid Worker Security Database | www.aidworkersecurity.org

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Major Attacks on Aid Workers, 2004 - 2014

Courtesy of Aid Worker Security Database | www.aidworkersecurity.org

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Most Violent Settings, 2014

Courtesy of Aid Worker Security Database | www.aidworkersecurity.org

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History of ID/HA Security

Relatively new field

  • Existed, but not codified
  • Less than 10 years
  • Little/no organizations had actual plans and policies

Divided into three eras of ID/HA

  • Cold War years,
  • Post-Cold War – September 10, 2001
  • Post-9/11
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ID/HA Security, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

What ID/HA Security was

  • Cold War Era
  • Had de facto protection from Cold War powers.
  • We’re helping the people so they won’t hurt us.
  • Little/no donor support/funding for safety and security.
  • No staff training
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ID/HA Security, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

What ID/HA Security was

  • Post-Cold War – 9/10/2001
  • No more protection from Cold War powers.
  • Relied entirely on good will of community.
  • Acceptance Model
  • Safety/security seen as additional cost, not relevant to program/project

goals.

  • Little/no donor support/funding for training.
  • Staff training, if any, focused heavily on expatriate staff
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ID/HA Security, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

What ID/HA Security is now

  • Post-9/11
  • Growing recognition that ID/HA can no longer depend on goodwill and reputation for

protection

  • Better understanding Duty of Care
  • More willing to allocate resources to safety & security.
  • Growing acceptance that safety/security as important to program implementation as

delivering services

  • Donors proactively requiring threat/security assessments from ID/HA
  • Recognition of how safety/security plans, protocols procedures can not only protect

staff, but also reduce costs, safeguard company assets/reputation, extend programming, ultimately better serve beneficiaries

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Who are the staff?

  • Aid Workers Beta and 1.0
  • Aid Workers 2.0
  • The Cowboys
  • The Tree Huggers
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Challenges

  • Operating Environment
  • Organizational Level
  • Donor Level
  • National Government Level
  • International Level
  • Individual Level
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ID/HA Security Manager Description

Perception

  • All gun totting former military, intel;
  • Will always say “NO”;
  • Make things more complicated and more expensive;
  • Because they hired you, nothing bad will ever happen;
  • Have a direct line to Seal Team VI to rescue them
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ID/HA Security Manager Description

Reality

  • Enable the delivery of international development and

humanitarian assistance

  • Never/rarely say no
  • Get them out when things go south
  • Given the opportunity, will reduce costs and help them plan for

those “Oh shit” moments

  • Of course take the blame for everything that goes wrong
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Changing ID/HA Landscape

  • Technology
  • Logistics
  • Communication
  • Duty of Care
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ID/HA Security, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

What NGO Security could be? Should be?!...Will be!!

  • Full integration of safety/security into program design and

implementation.

  • All staff are trained and compliant
  • Understand that safety/security goes beyond “guards, gates,

guns”

  • Acknowledgement that ROI is a factor
  • Established international legal frameworks for the

implementation of safety/security

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Amaury T. Cooper

Director, Global Safety & Security Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC, Inc.) acooper@edc.org | @amaurycooper | www.edc.org Co-Founder; Secretary, Board of Directors International NGO Safety & Security Association (INSSA) inssaonline@inssa.ngo | www.inssa.ngo | @INSSAOnline