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NGO Risk Management

Our risk work focuses on the experience of international organizations and the ways in which they identify, measure, and manage risk within their own programming and policies.

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Humanitarian Practice

Managing Risk in International and Local NGO Partnerships

An in-depth study of the realities and recommendations for improving risk management in humanitarian crises.

Lindsay Hamsik

Mar 6, 2019

Leadership Development

Managing Urgent Versus Important

Managing the urgent versus the important gets even more challenging in a rapidly changing world. How does one honor what must be done now AND…

Deborah Willig

Dec 9, 2019

Leadership Development

How to Lead a Conflict-Positive Organization

The NGO sector has several distinctive characteristics that, on occasion, cause internal conflicts. In fact, of 93 international NGOs surveyed working in over…

Deborah Willig

Dec 2, 2019

Prevention of Sexual Abuse & Harassment

Funding the Future

InterAction’s From Pledge to Action Project works with our Member organizations to change the structural and cultural barriers to addressing sexual harassment and abuse…

Soshana Hashmie

Nov 21, 2019

Risk Management & Regulatory Issues

De-risking: A Product of Avoidance

Over the past several months, InterActions’s Together Project Members and Partners, including Islamic Relief-USA, Helping Hand for Relief and Development, Feed the Children, and…

Princess Bazley-Bethea

Selena Bridges

Nov 15, 2019

Risk Management & Regulatory Issues

NGO Risk Management Principles and Promising Practice

With heightened levels of violence in some conflict settings, coupled with proliferating legal and fiduciary regulations related to anti-corruption and counter-terror efforts, humanitarian non-governmental organizations…

Nov 8, 2019

Humanitarian Coordination

The Future of NGOs: Five Tips on Responding to a Changing World

What top tips do CEOs have on how NGOs can respond to a changing world? During an InterAction Forum breakout session, five executives shared…

Deborah Willig

Jul 25, 2019

Risk Management & Regulatory Issues

REPORT: NGOs & Risk: Managing Uncertainty in Local-International Partnerships: Global Report

This report examines how risk is perceived and managed in partnerships between international and national NGOs working in humanitarian response.

Mar 6, 2019

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Lindsay Hamsik

Senior Manager, Humanitarian Policy and Practice

Patricia McIlreavy

Vice President, Humanitarian Policy and Practice

NGO Risk Management

Updates

Managing Risk in International and Local NGO Partnerships

Managing Urgent Versus Important

How to Lead a Conflict-Positive Organization

Funding the Future

De-risking: A Product of Avoidance

NGO Risk Management Principles and Promising Practice

The Future of NGOs: Five Tips on Responding to a Changing World

REPORT: NGOs & Risk: Managing Uncertainty in Local-International Partnerships: Global Report

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