Center on International Cooperation

Humanitarian Action in a New Security Era

The Humanitarian Action in a New Security Era program focuses on the actors and institutions of the international humanitarian system and their policy and operational responses to a changing global security context. This program is a collaborative effort between CIC and Humanitarian Outcomes.

Lead Researchers : Abby Stoddard (CIC Non-Resident Fellow and Humanitarian Outcomes Partner) and Adele Harmer (Humanitarian Outcomes)

Funders: Government of Canada, Government of Ireland , Government of the United Kingdom, Government of the United States, The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Collaborating institutions: Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI

Title	Source	Author	Date
Recent Publications
To Stay and Deliver	Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)	Abby Stoddard	March 2011
The Aid Worker Security Database	Humanitarian Outcomes with funding from Canada, Ireland, and the US Governments	Abby Stoddard, Adele Harmer, Katherine Haver	Launched August 2010
Once Removed: Lessons and challenges in remote management for humanitarian operations in insecure areas	Humanitarian Outcomes report for a CIC project commissioned by the Government of Australia	Abby Stoddard, Adele Harmer, Jean S. Renouf	June 2010
The State of the Humanitarian System	Humanitarian Outcomes commissioned report for ALNAP Humanitarian Performance Project	Paul Harvey, Abby Stoddard, Adele Harmer, Glyn Taylor with Victoria DiDomenico and Lauren Brander	January 2010

Title	Panel	Location	Date
EVents
4th Annual Consortium on Security and Humanitarian Action 2011 Frontiers of Humanitarianism Conference Video - National and Regional Humanitarian Actors Video - Replacing the Duanist Humanitarian Values with a Right-Based Framework Video - Twenty Years of Lessons Learned or Spurned by Inter-Governmental and Non-Gonvernmental Organizations Video - Professionalism and Innovation		Fordham University \| 113 West 60th, St. NY, NY 10023 \| Lowenstein Building \| 12th Floor Lounge	March 2011

Archived Publications | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |

Media & Events

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.

Recent Press : CNN, National Public Radio (NPR), EU Observer, People's Daily, Reuters AlertNet

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