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Alessandra Pigni
09/05/2016
Alessandra Pigni is a licensed psychologist and researcher. She has served with MSF, done extensive work on staff care in Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Turkey and has been a visiting research fellow at Oxford University. She shares tips and reflections on burnout prevention in her blog www.mindfulnext.org and on Twitter @mindfulnext.
Now that Steve Dennis’ case against the Norwegian Refugee Council no longer makes headlines, we can begin to address what caring for staff really means, beyond “duty of care” policies and guidelines. Because the truth is, the vast majority of humanitarian agencies have improved.
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Genevieve Cyvoct
27/04/2016
Genevieve is the Senior Capacity Development Officer at the CHS Alliance.
One of the most pressing questions from participants at a recent training workshop on the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) in Haiti was, how do we to explain the CHS to the communities we work with? Communities and people affected by crisis are at the centre of the CHS and should always be central to any decisions we make on humanitarian or development action.
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Bianca Valencia
12/04/2016
Bianca Valencia is the Training Programme Services Manager at Birches Group. She has extensive experience working with INGOs and development organisations through Birches Group salary surveys and training workshop programme.
Bianca Valencia, Training Programme Services Manager at Birches Group, regularly works with HR managers all over the world. In this blog she discusses the issues they face in their work, and the importance of ensuring HR staff are well trained.
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Emily Tullock
06/04/2016
Emily Tullock is the Communications Officer at the CHS Alliance.
What would you do if you were called on to conduct an investigation into allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) made about staff or volunteers at your organisation? Unfortunately, we know that incidences of SEA, fraud and corruption by aid workers occur and, consequently, must be investigated.
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Justine Tordoff
29/03/2016
Justine has worked in the humanitarian and development sector for over 18 years, including 11 years with Oxfam GB and six years with RedR UK. She has a HR specialist background and has also worked as a country director in the UK, Africa and Asia. She is now an independent consultant for the sector, and is working with the CHS Alliance on the Transforming Surge Capacity Project.
The CHS Alliance is pleased to be part of an exciting project as part of the Start Network, looking to transform ways in which the humanitarian sector undertakes surge responses. As part of this project, a new online interactive HR platform has been launched, which is intended to help HR and other humanitarian staff share good practices and learn from each other when undertaking surge responses.
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Verity Stiff
18/03/2016
Verity is the Head of People & Organisational Development at the CHS Alliance. She has worked in several countries, primarily in Africa and the Middle East, including those going through conflict and high-risk situations.
I recently joined a group of professionals working with staff deployed internationally at the fourth conference on duty of care: protecting workers and students overseas. How would you manage a staff member overseas who refused to attend daily compulsory security briefings? This was the scenario I put to the two sessions I chaired on managing misconduct overseas.
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David Loquercio
02/03/2016
Head of Policy, Advocacy and Learning
David Loquercio, Head of Policy, Advocacy and Learning at the CHS Alliance looks at the issue of cash programming through the lens of the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS).
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Uma Narayanan
29/02/2016
Uma Narayanan, a Kuala Lumpur based consultant works with clients to help sharpen their organisational effectiveness in aspects of human resources (HR), organisational development (OD) and accountability.
Uma Narayanan is the project consultant working on revising the core humanitarian competencies framework. In this blog she talks about the revision process and how you can get involved.
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Kelly O'Donnell
24/02/2016
Kelly O’Donnell (PsyD) is a consulting psychologist and CEO of Member Care Associates.
In this blog Kelly O'Donnell explores psychological perspectives on what helps and hinders good practice for accountability. Cognitive dissonance is one of the most relevant concepts from social psychology that can help us “do accountability well” and hopefully minimise our propensity to prevarication when it comes to accountability.
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Maduri Moutou
22/02/2016
The CHS Alliance is part of an exciting project with one ambition – improving the capacity of humanitarian agencies to scale up resources in emergency response. Two seminal reports on transforming surge capacity and the state of surge highlighted 11 key findings which CHS Alliance's Maduri Moutou shared in Bangkok in January 2016.
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Emily Tullock
18/02/2016
Emily Tullock is the Communications Officer at the CHS Alliance.
How do you measure performance management in your organisation? Does your performance management system take into account the modern workplace realities of part-timers, those working from home, checking email in the evenings, and juggling family commitments?
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Maduri Moutou
08/02/2016
Senior People Capacity and Development Manager
Over 20 years ago, the research report “Room for Improvement: The Management and Support of Relief Workers” started a change in the way organisations and staff work together in the humanitarian and development sector. The question today is, are the initial findings of the paper still relevant?
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Hitendra Solanki
09/12/2015
Mindfulness and Wellbeing Adviser for Action Against Hunger UK and the Start Network.
In recent years, there has been an awareness of mindfulness-based approaches to stress reduction, along with evidence on its benefits towards supporting personal and organisational wellbeing. In the paper, Mindfulness and Wellbeing, released today, Hitendra Solanki, explores the current wellbeing support available to aid workers and examines the concept of mindfulness, and in particular, mindfulness-based approaches. He discusses the paper in this blog post.
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Emmanuelle Lacroix
08/12/2015
People, Capacity and Development Manager
Organisational duty of care and the need to support aid workers’ mental health has hit the news recently, helping to bring attention to these key issues. Moving past the headlines, our People, Capacity and Development Manager, Em Lacroix, explores what it means for the sector, its agencies and its workforce.
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Nick Van Praag
03/12/2015
Nick van Praag directs Ground Truth Solutions, a programme of Keystone Accountability that focuses on accountability to affected people. His career spans humanitarian and development work at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the Aga Khan Development Network, and the World Bank.
One has to sympathise with humanitarian staff. The majority are keen to do their best to help people in need. The places they work are often difficult and increasingly dangerous, and there is little stability or job security. Expectations and demands on them are high.
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Paul Harvey
02/12/2015
Paul Harvey is a partner with Humanitarian Outcomes, a consulting firm providing research evidence and policy advice to inform better humanitarian aid. Prior to that he was with the Humanitarian Policy Group at ODI and an aid worker for different NGOs in places including Sierra Leone, Somalia and Kosovo.
Corruption in humanitarian action remains an under-researched issue. Humanitarian aid agencies devote significant time, energy and resources to internal efforts to combat corruption but remain reluctant to openly discuss and share learning due to fears that talking about corruption could undermine public support for aid in donor countries.
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Lucy Heaven Taylor
23/11/2015
Lucy Heaven Taylor is an accountability and PSEA specialist with 17 experience in the sector. She advises and supports a range of NGO and UN clients such as Oxfam, World Vision and the CHS Alliance at Head Office and field level. Her PSEA experience includes advising on strategy, conducting investigations, and training on prevention and investigations. She leads the CHS Alliance’s Investigating Complaints of SEA training in a range of global locations.
CHS Alliance workshops on Investigating Complaints of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse always provide an opportunity to discuss current issues affecting participants. At one in Istanbul recently, one question kept coming up – how can we respond to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in remotely managed programmes?
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Dr Ishbel McWha-Hermann
20/11/2015
Ishbel McWha-Hermann is an Early Career Fellow in International Human Resource Management at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Her research focuses on fairness within the international aid sector, and builds on her previous experience working with NGOs while living in India and Cambodia.
Fairness is something all of us working in this sector think about and deal with on an everyday basis. We work to help our communities confront the inherent inequities they face. What we sometimes don’t think about are the inequities that can exist within our own organisations.
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Alex Swarbrick
29/10/2015
Alex Swarbrick is a consultant, facilitator and coach at Roffey Park, a leadership development institute based in the UK and Singapore. Alex has an international HR background, contributed to the design of the People In Aid Code and was an assessor for the Code Quality Marks. A regular writer on HR, and Programme Director for Roffey Park’s HR qualification, Alex will shortly be moving to Singapore to lead Roffey Park’s work in the Asia Pacific.
The Humanitarian HR Asia conference this month in Kuala Lumpur is asking questions about Talent Preparedness and Humanitarian Leadership. To me, the combination of Leadership with Talent in the title is key, and rightly extends the agenda from HR to leadership and the whole organisation.
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Alex Jacobs
27/10/2015
Alex Jacobs is the Director of Programme Quality at Plan International. He is a member of the Task Team on Humanitarian Effectiveness for the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, and blogs at ngoperformance.org.
I was at the vast Global Consultation of the World Humanitarian Summit last week. It was a big step in the final push to Istanbul, next May.
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