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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

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Mar 6, 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

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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

Risk Management & Regulatory Issues

RECOMMENDATIONS: NGOs & Risk: Managing Uncertainty in Local-International Partnerships: Good Practice and Recommendations for Humanitarian Actors

This briefing paper compiles the recommendations from the 2019 reports of the research program NGOs and Risk – Managing Uncertainty in Local-International Partnerships, undertaken by InterAction with Humanitarian Outcomes. The recommendations derive from research at the global level and field case studies in South Sudan and northeast Nigeria.

Mar 6, 2019

Risk Management & Regulatory Issues

CASE STUDIES: NGOs & Risk: Managing Uncertainty in Local-International Partnerships: Northeast Nigeria and South Sudan

This report examines partnerships between international NGOs (INGOs) and local/national NGOs (L/NNGOs) in two complex, conflict-driven emergencies: Nigeria and South Sudan. It presents case studies that are one component of InterAction’s Risk II: Local Actor Partnerships project – an 18-month research study funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA).

Mar 6, 2019

Risk Management & Regulatory Issues

NGOs and Risk Study Enters Second Phase, Survey Now Available

The new phase will focus on risk management within partnerships between national, local and international NGOs

Lindsay Hamsik

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Apr 23, 2018

Risk Management & Regulatory Issues

NGOs and Risk: How International Humanitarian Actors Manage Uncertainty

For humanitarian organizations, the presence of risk in the operating environment can force difficult trade-offs between the needs of people they are trying to serve and the need to mitigate potential harm to their personnel, resources, and reputation.

Feb 5, 2016

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Senior Manager, Humanitarian Policy and Practice

Patricia McIlreavy

Vice President, Humanitarian Policy & Practice