Spearfish West Africa training team
Spearfish West Africa recently completed the successful delivery of 5 x Hostile Environment Awareness Training courses to Abuja and Lagos based national staff of the British High Commission to Nigeria.
Response & social media
Earlier this month Spearfish Security, held an online Crisis Management (CM) . They each gave an in-depth insight into our views on challenges of running virtual CM teams, centred around the Activation, Response, and Lessons Learned from a Crisis. This Week John Smith write about the Response and the affects of social media.
Activation
Last week here at Spearfish Security, we held an online Crisis Management (CM) seminar with myself and members of the board John Smith and Grant White. We each gave an in-depth insight into our views on challenges of running virtual CM teams, centred around the Activation, Response, and Lessons Learned from a Crisis. For our blog, we will publish each presentation, starting with my Activation session below, with Response and Lessons Learned in the following weeks.
Dan Hooton managing director
The reporting of the potential reduction in spending in the media earlier this week of a decrease from 0.7% to 0.5% of an already shrinking Gross National Product will no doubt create concern in the development sector. The timing could hardly be worse, when placed into the context of a deteriorating worldwide economic situation due to CV19, with a possible debt crisis looming.
Zelalem Takele, is one of newer members of the Spearfish Global Team. Now based in Addis Ababa he has been an invaluable asset to our clients during these unsettling times in the region.
Although tensions remain, there is currently a lull in the violence unleashed by the poor and frustrated youth, criminal gangs and political activists, almost as though they are pausing for breath and are rather shocked by the havoc that they have caused.
