Findings from a Project Level Risk Assessment for Safe, Accountable & Inclusive Programming - Lessons from GOAL Syria

This brief outlines lessons learnt on how GOAL Syria took a preventative approach towards protection, safeguarding, inclusion, and gender-related risks to ensure safe, accountable, and inclusive programming (SAIP). This assessment identified situations, processes, and other factors that may cause harm to or exclusion of different stakeholders, particularly GOAL programme participants and staff. After these risks were identified, a full risk analysis and evaluation on the likelihood and severity of each risk was determined and mitigation measures were agreed. This assessment was undertaken on the basis that identifying risks and ways of preventing them strengthens GOAL programming and programme quality by enabling the agency to take a preventive approach to risks before they happen.