Definitions
What is a threat?
Danger in our operating environment
What are five threats in Gaza?
Airstrikes, Looting, UXOs, Gunfire, Sexual Harassment, arrest/detention, carjacking, disease
What is the biggest risk with water trucking activities?
Looting
What are considered "sensitive locations" at a potential future ACF activity site that may impact our decision to be able to work there?
Governmental buildings, mosques, airstrikes inside of the camp, sense of political affiliations, weapons
Define Security
Freedom from harm, or the risk of harm, which results from intentional acts
What are the biggest threats while working in a camp environment?
Rioting, political affiliations, looting, crossfire, airstrikes
What is the biggest risk of distribution activities?
Looting, crowd control
What are three examples of behavioral observations while doing an assessment that may negatively affect our decision to work there
Visible tensions within the community, community leaders inability to control the inhabitants, tensions with other communities, weapons (or suspected of their presence), unprofessional communication of community leaders
Define Safety
Freedom from harm, or the risk of harm, which results from unintentional acts
What are the signs that there could be an unexploded ordnance?
craters, rubble, warning signs, areas with a history of conflict, bombs bullets rockets grenades shells metal objects
What are the two biggest risks during road movements?
Road traffic accidents and checkpoints
You are conducting a security assessment at a camp that ACF would like to implement a nutrition distribution at. The camp is on open land and consists of ten sectors within this one camp. What are the main questions you would need to take in account for working here?
Is there a community leader per camp? Is there one camp community leader overseeing all of the leaders of each section? How many sites would receive aid out of the ten and if not all, would it create potential tensions? Do the camp leaders have control over so many people?
Define Risk
Exposure to a situation of potential danger
Where should you shelter during an airstrike if you are inside of a building?
Away from the windows, between two walls, low to the ground
What are the biggest risks for flood mitigation projects, use of big machinery such as drillers, trucks, and bulldozers?
Perceived as sensitive for digging tunnels
You are offered food at one of the camps. You do not want to insult the culture and at the same time, you feel that it creates a conflict of interest if you accept. What do you do?
Politely decline, say you are thankful for their generosity but your organization has rules regarding eating food in the field
Define vulnerability
The extent capable of being physically or mentally wounded by a threat
What is a checkpoint?
What are the biggest risks at the Checkpoint? Name three
A post used to control entry into certain areas
-Arrest and detention
-Extortion
-Assault
-Abduction
What are the most likely areas that an ACF program will be looted?
Al Rachid Road, Salah Ad Din Road
While on your way to conduct a security assessment, you are stopped at a checkpoint by a group of armed men. You are a team of four and your driver is quickly detained and disappeared by the group of men. You are forced by weapon to leave. What is your course of action?
Drive to a safe location. One team member takes the gps location of the checkpoint. One member calls the Security Focal point at base to report the incident and ask for a new route to travel onward