Overview

Our Senior Security Advisor Darren Kelly together with our Global Security Analyst Louise Vingert Silveria and special guest speaker Kathie Knell MBE held a Gender Safety Management Webinar this week where they discussed how security and personal safety can be perceived differently by men and women. During the webinar they considered and discussed the following areas from a gender perspective;

• Gendered protection approaches

• Gendered responses to mitigate

• The Impact of culture and leadership on gendered security

Review & Download

We understand that it is not always possible to attend these webinars, so for those who could not attend or would like to share our training with colleagues, please find links to our handout and video.

Finally, if you would like to speak to us about how we can support you, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Watch our Gender Safety Webinar here;

Download our Gender Safety Webinar Handout here;

How Spearfish can support you

We understand the importance more than ever that clients are looking for a cost-effective and scalable security management solution for multiple business units within your organisation and its programmes and projects in our operating areas.

Our Regional Security Advisor Network provides simultaneous support to multiple client locations and their programme teams.

This scalable support will be timetabled or as required in response to specific requests for assistance which includes;

FULL-TIME EMBEDDED

• Medium to High-risk country,  significant travel outside the capital city

• Recruit a project-specific Security Advisor. 

PART-TIME IN-COUNTRY

• Medium to High-risk country, limited travel outside of the capital city

• If we have an RSA with spare capacity located in the country of interest, no recruitment is required. Alternatively, the requirement to recruit, hire, train (av. 4-week turnaround).

REGIONAL SUPPORT

• Medium to High-risk. Fly-in fly-out type project

• Supported by an RSA not necessarily located in the project country

Our Countries of Operation

Spearfish have an established and experienced network of Regional Security Advisors who are embedded in the following locations; Nigeria, Kenya, DRC/ Rwanda, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Pakistan and India.