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Who employs staff with a disability? Do they travel?
Developing a Disability-Inclusive Travel Risk Management PlanA critical part of Duty of Care
Tom van HerwijnenHealth, Safety & Security Manager
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Speaker introduction
• Field, regional and HQ.• Development Economist• Lived and worked in Asia. • Travelled as an individual and lived with my family in Afghanistan• High risk experience• Build HS&S framework with a DI
core• Share real life challenges.• Aim and passion:
• Safeguard Aidworker lives.
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Our mission
CBM is an international Christian development
organisation, committed to improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in the poorest communities of
the world.
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Disability facts
• 1 billion disabled• 150 million children
have a disability• 6.7 million refugees
with a disability.
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Disability - reality
Nigeria has• 26 million PwDs• 50% are 0-24 • Massive challenges in:
• Education• Health• Employment
• Almost no donor funding available for disability
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CBM’s Work - Disability Inclusive Development
672 Projects
483 Partners
65 Countries
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CBM Workforce850 staff
Persons with disability:CBM Total: 10 %• Regional Offices: up to 20%• Brussels Office: > 50%
Aim: disability confident organisation
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Building S&S CapacityS&S Training | 2016: 279 participants & 96 briefings Contextualised risks & vulnerabilities + mitigation Not training individual staff with a disability but teams Simulations with disability inclusion
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Disability Specific Security Briefings
1. Pre departure2. De-brief
Perpetual learning
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Cultural perceptions
Security for females with a disability
• Situational awareness• Team work• Last resort: self defence
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Case studyVisual impairment
Checkpoint situation
NGO vehicle with a blind employee on board
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Case studyHearing impairment
• Warehouse attacked
• Deaf staff don’t hear gunshots
NGO warehouse in a conflict zone
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Travel Risk Management - Mobility impairment
Aidworker in a wheelchair goes on trip
Wheelchair is damaged during a flight
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Travel Risk Management - some other examples
A blind traveler’s flight is delayed; further information is on the monitors…
A deaf aidworker is on a flight that is diverted…
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Case study – disability inclusive emergency response
People with disabilities are extra vulnerable: • Can’t hear / see alarm • Can’t run away from a flood• Require devices lost in chaos• Struggle to communicate
• Can’t reach a water point in a camp• Are pushed away in the queue
People are left behind….What can we do about it?
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Embed inclusion into Duty of Care
• Discuss specific needs of staff with a disability.
• Practice and adapt to changing circumstances
• Train teams, not individuals • Discuss needs with travel agents and
insurance companies
Highly motivated staffLow staff turnover
Nothing about us without us
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Available resources
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Duty of Care Award – CBM Highly commended
International SOS Duty of Care Awards 2016
Opportunity for INGOs to share experience
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Global insecurity trend
Quote Feb. 2017 Int’l Crisis Group
• It is difficult to think of a time in recent history with so many destabilising factors.
NGOs face this reality while we struggle to guarantee programme continuity while also safeguarding our staff.
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Ten ‘lessons’ setting up a Security Management System
1 Leadership commitment
DoC / S&S = strategic risk, massive impact
2 Staff ownership No hindrance but programme enabler
3 Focus: avoid incidents
Invest: Crisis Management
4 Embed in Risk Management
Media, cyber, legal, financial, reputational…
5 Set achievable minimum standards
Allow country specific adaptations
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Ten ‘lessons’ setting up a Security Management System
6 Mandatory Staff Training
NGO specificNot off-the-shelf
7 Incident / near-miss reporting
Prevent and learn
8 Allow staff time to prepare
Tired staff make mistakes
9 Dedicate staff Field experience10 S&S budget Training, secure
vehicles, hotline
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Questions & comments
Open to sharing resources
My ‘end of year targets’ ……• Harsh reality• Aidworkers return
home safely