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Advisory Services

The SMI provides advisory and consultancy services to national and international aid agencies on request. These services include monitoring, evaluation and assessment of risk management systems, development and implementation of risk management systems, training and workshop facilitation on humanitarian risk and security management, and commissioned research in related fields.

Advisory services operate on a cost-recovery basis. For a cost estimate, please contact SMI, preferably including terms of reference detailing requirements.

Main Past and Present SMI Advisory Services

2011 - 2012

Sollicited by IrishAid, together with HumanitarianPolicy, conduct a review of security risk management structure of IrishAid NGO partners and funding recipients, and produce draft standards on security risk management of Irish NGOs. One aim is to work towards conformity with the standards to help individual aid agencies to fulfil their responsibilities towards their own staff and to exercise their duty of care as employers.

2010

Member of the Advisory Group of the Operating in Complex Security Environments: a Review of Best Practices and Policy Implications of Humanitarian Operations study commissioned by UN OCHA.

Member of the Advisory Board for the 2011 Humanitarian Action Summit working group on NGO Security and Standards in Staff Protection. The 2011 Humanitarian Action Summit took place 4-6 March 2011 in Cambridge, MA. It was hosted by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI).

2009

Member of the Advisory Board of the revised edition of the Good Practice Review 8 (GPR 8), Operational Security Management in Violent Environments (2000) of the Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN), Overseas Development Institute (ODI).

2008

Risk and security evaluations of human rights NGOs in Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and in Serbia.

2006

Risk and security evaluation of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH), Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.