Aid Worker Security Database Launched

19 August 2010 marks World Humanitarian Day and the launch of the online version of the Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD).

The rising trend of violence against aid workers has generated a need for better reporting, tracking and analyzing of attacks against aid workers.  The Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD) records over a decade of the major incidents of violence against aid workers, from 1997 to the present. The database is single most comprehensive global source of this data, and we hope that in this publicly accessible form it will provide a much-needed quantitative evidence base for analysis of the changing security environment for civilian aid operations. With this database we will be able to provide consistent monitoring and regular analysis of trends in operational security, including the publication of biannual policy briefs, statistical analysis, as well as respond to agency-specific security data upon request.

The AWSD is a project of Humanitarian Outcomes and led by two of its partners Dr. Abby Stoddard (CIC non-resident fellow) and Adele Harmer.  

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