Armadillo at Large

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Michelle Mackintosh recently led a training support contract in Khartoum, focussing on crisis response with an INGO client. Earlier in the year we provided two interim security officers in Darfur and our context knowledge remains strong.

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.

“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 [...]

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.

This from the BBC: Mexican police have found six charred bodies on a street in the northern border city of Tijuana, bringing the number killed in three days to 14. The six men had their hands bound and heads covered with plastic bags and had been shot or beaten, officials said. The execution-style killings followed [...]