Voice Out Loud Issue 10: Humanitarian Aid and Security

Have the challenges NGOs are faced with changed? Ranging from acceptance by local populations to armed guards, what are the different alternatives for NGOs concerning security management? How to define an "acceptable" level of risk for ourselves and our local partners? Should humanitarians develop a stronger communication strategy for making their specific mandate better known and distinguishing it clearly from political and military agendas? Data collected and analysed by the Overseas Development Institute present up to date indicators of recent trends, and give first propositions to explain these multiple questions. In addition, in this issue of the VOICE OUT LOUD, VOICE members give their views from the field and their daily work; both on the current difficult security context they operate in, and on how they respond to it to continue to deliver quality aid to people in need of assistance.