Armadillo at Large

Armadillo is currently carrying 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.

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 [...]

Armadillo returns to WBG in March 2010 to continue our support work with GANSO. Started in July 2009 Armadillo delivered training and consultancy services in support of GANSO, and is very happy to be asked back to further develop and continue this work.

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 [...]

Patrick Fox is leading our review and assessment work in South Sudan, with Steve Ritchie and Kjell Bjork following in shortly to lead the training phase. Thanks to other existing clients in the region we are probably going to run an open training course in March or April as well as this extensive client support [...]

Armadillo is at work in Nigeria supporting our client partner as they carry out important environmental work in the region. Four of our field experts are part of our partner’s team, working to support their safety and security in a challenging context, and as ever supporting programme delivery, not programme prevention!

“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, [...]

Personal safety, security and first aid for humanitarian aid workers If youʼre working for an NGO in Afghanistan, youʼre probably all too aware of the everyday dangers you face in this hazardous environment. You put up with them because youʼre committed to getting your humanitarian job done. But did you realise that you and your [...]

Steve McCann of Armadillo and Chris Finucane were in the West Bank and Gaza in August 2009, and completed four training courses with 70 participants from 30 agencies, from Logistics Assistant to Country Director. Feedback was strong, particularly for the new approach to threat and risk analysis. Armadillo and Chris’s company, Humanitarian Policy, joined forces [...]

Lebanon Daily Star: BEIRUT: Local leaders, members of the security forces and residents of the Tawaara neighborhood in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp met Sunday to discuss the fragile security situation in the camp after a series of explosions and heavy fighting erupted last week. Read the original article here.