Armadillo at Large consultants are practitioners, not theoreticians. We all have extensive field experience delivering high-quality security support to humanitarian organisations.
We go beyond training or short-term consultancy. Armadillo at Large has provided full, on-the-ground operational security for an international organisation with high-value targets working in extremely dangerous areas. We have completed a security review and situation analysis for an organisation with offices throughout Iraq, from Baghdad to Basrah, in order to develop their security strategy and mitigate future risks. When conflict broke out in Kenya and 17 humanitarian workers faced urgent threats to their lives, we arranged for their immediate extraction and brought them home safely. Our consultants are always on call to provide you with the advice and support your organisation needs.
Armadillo at Large seeks to create a long-term, sustainable difference for your organisation. We believe that security underlies everything for NGOs. By making your programmes safer, we improve them.
We are interested in building long-term relationships with all organisations that we work with, and can tailor our training, consultancy, and support to meet your needs. Please contact us to learn more.
Armadillo is registered at Companies House, London, UK, with the company registration number 4449202.
“I had been living in Afghanistan, working for an NGO for about three years before I took the Armadillo training. Those three years were fraught with adventures that no one really wants to have, including walking through a minefield, being kicked off a public bus and forced to hitchhike through the Solang pass to Kabul, [...]
Armadillo has worked regularly with a variety of INGO clients in Gaza and the West Bank since 2009, most recently in late summer of 2012. We look forward to returning again soon.
We have several client partners in Pakistan, and an ongoing mentoring relationship as well as an in the field presence. Steve Ritchie has just completed a period in Pakistan to complement his remote mentoring and support work. This client partner relationship is the kind of work we value and want to increasingly develop – it [...]
Participants were full of praise for Steve Ritchie’s training on all aspects of safety and security in Sudan recently: The training really made awesome impact and I’d recommend it anytime again as a base team. The instructor was very knowledgeable and had a good way of presenting the information. He brought up some very good points [...]
After a year of supporting our environmental client in the field full time, we enter a break in that programme as the way ahead is agreed. In the meantime we have developed our context expertise through working with some smaller INGO partners, and in supporting a legal team involved in a major claim.
Armadillo has recently carried out a full security review for a humanitarian agency with offices throughout Iraq, from Erbil, to Basrah, to Baghdad. Consultant Michelle Mackintosh, who has extensive experience in Iraq, has been working on the ground with the agency to develop its new security strategy in this challenging environment. We are expecting to [...]