OUR APPROACH

Good security comes from good programming.

Our work is first and foremost beneficiary-focused, innovative, and aims to have an impact across the aid sector.  
Our belief is that the best way to ensure continued access to beneficiaries, in even the most complex and fluid situations, is for organisations to institutionalize effective security planning and procedures from the outset. Our intent is always to teach and facilitate best practice – practices which both safeguard staff while also enabling access to those most in need.  Our passion is to help enable safer and more effective operating practices, from those employed by management to those used by the teams in the field

We understand and are experienced in the challenges that aid workers, both national and international, face every day.  Safer Access is a platform for the collection and distribution of expertise and information to those that need it most.  To that end, we are committed to the free and open sharing of critical information – including analysis and best practice – amongst humanitarian and development organisations so as to enable them to better manage their operating risks.

Safer Access is a principled learning and collaborative organisation, meant to serve as a resource for the wider aid community.  Our guiding principles are the same as those that apply for all relief and development organizations – impartiality, independence, and neutrality in the deliverance of life-saving assistance.  We are not led by any political or corporate agenda. We simply aim to improve the delivery of humanitarian and development assistance.

Safer Access was formed in 2006, and operates as a not-for-profit organisation.