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In the final episode of the series, we speak to Michael Kramer from the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs about Security Risk Management from the donors' perspective.
We also look back at - and say thanks once more to - all of the excellent guests, without whom the series wouldn't have been possible.
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In this episode, the EISF's Executive Director Lisa Reilly talks about the importance of coordination and cooperation in creating a safer environment for Aid Workers.
We discuss why coordination is particularly important for improving humanitarian security risk management and therefore access for programmes, and the role everyone has to play.
We also look at the technology available to support coordination and cooperation, and how it can be a double-edged sword.
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Craig Grice and Salah Noori work for the Norwegian Refugee Council in Iraq.
In this instalment, they illustrate how effectively security risk management can support sustainable access in a high risk environment.
As well as the challenges they have encountered and continue to face, this episode highlights some of the tremendous successes they have achieved so far.
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Heather is the Global Security Advisor for Oxfam GB, based in the UK. She has held the post since 2001. She manages three Security Officers, and provides technical support to country and regional security staff.
Heather focuses on strategic issues such as development of Oxfam’s approach to security risk management, and operational issues such as lessons learned and managing incidents and crises.She works with managers at all levels in the organisation to ensure that existing approaches to security management are strengthened and best practice is incorporated into good programme management. Heather has been involved with EISF since inception.
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In this episode, we speak to Eva Svoboda, a Senior Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute.
Eva discusses how the humanitarian principles be used within an organisations’ security risk management approach, and why people might assume that security management within the humanitarian sector can undermine these principles.
We also talk about the fact that many field security managers come from a military background, and how it's possible to bridge the perceived gap between the humanitarian principles and security risk management.
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In the first episode of the series, we speak to Loretta Minghella, the CEO of Christian Aid.
We discuss why effective security risk management is so important to Christian Aid, how they have created and maintained the security culture within the organisation, and what the main drivers are for change and continuing improvement.
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The EISF in Conversation podcast investigates different perspectives and aspects of humanitarian security risk management.
The aim is to raise awareness of security risk management, encourage a better understanding of what security risk management can achieve, and start conversations in and outside the sector.
The first series explores how security risk management can enable humanitarian access.
The European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) is an independent network of security focal points who represent European-based humanitarian NGOs operating internationally.
