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September 2014
Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada’s (DFATD’s) Consular Outreach and Partnerships Program and Emergency Management Bureau, and CISAF hosted a table top exercise whereby a number of different critical incidents were discussed. DFATD shared how they would be able to provide support a number of different critical incidents, and participants left with a better understanding
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CISAF moderated a panel discussion entitled "The Cost of Security" at the second annual Canadian Humanitarian Conference, held in Ottawa from December 4-5th 2014. The purpose of our panel was to raise awareness about the cost of security vs the cost of insecurity, highlighting the positive and negative impacts that each can have on our organizations. The
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May 2015
This workshop provided participants with a greater understanding of the psychological needs that people have in the midst of crises and how these needs can inform communications; an increased knowledge of key principles of crisis and risk communications; and greater comfort in applying these principles in different kinds of crises.
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June 2016
This CISAF meeting included a guest speaker from the Observatoire canadien sur les crises et l'aide humanitaire at Université du Québec à Montréal.
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January 2020
April 2020
November 2020
This webinar will provide valuable information about aspects to consider and strategies to implement in order to mitigate risks for INGOs. Case studies related to : a) Gender-based violence; b) COVID-19 and public health concerns, and c) Conflicts and social unrest will be the focus of workshop activities amongst participants. Registration online : Please send
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