The overall level of violence experienced by humanitarian personnel has risen significantly over the past decade. There have been significant efforts to reduce the risks, and there is considerable experience within the humanitarian community to establish some key factors and to inform the efforts of humanitarian colleagues. However, while many individual humanitarian agencies and country teams have analyzed the implications of these trends in terms of their own operations, there continues to be a lack of system-wide analysis. This study precisely aims at filling the gaps by presenting humanitarian practitioners with suggested practices which could be put in place in order to maintain their ability to deliver on their primary mandates and be able to reach beneficiaries in complex security environments.
