Christopher Ankersen, Deputy Chief

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Security Risk Management UN Perspectives and
Approaches

• Christopher Ankersen, Deputy Chief
• United Nations
• Security Safety Service, Vienna
• Presentation to the ÖIIP
• 23 October 2007

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Outline

• Aim to introduce the United Nations approach to
  security risk management
• Outline
• The Department of Safety and Security
• The Security Management System
• The Security Risk Management process
• Applications UN Security

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Aid work is risky business.
97 to 05, violence rose in absolute terms
and in the number of victims per 10,000 workers.
Source Overseas Development Institute (HPG
Report 23, 09/2006)
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The UNs wake-up call

• On 19 August 2003, a vehicle bomb destroyed the
  Canal Hotel in Baghdad, killing 19 staff members
  and injuring many others
• Following this and other incidents, all UN staff
  were withdrawn from Iraq
• Several inquiries were launched

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led to the creation of DSS.

• UNIFIED The existing security structures of
  the Secretariatshould be amalgamated
• STRENGTHENED The department should be headed
  by an Under-Secretary-General reporting directly
  to the S-G
• PROFESSIONALISED The department should acquire
  significant new capabilities in the areas of
  security threat and risk assessment, operational
  support in the field, policies and standards,
  compliance and evaluation, human resources
  management of security staff and training
• ENLARGED there should be a significant
  increase in the number of security personnel,
  particularly in the field
• RESOURCED security costs should be centrally
  funded

Source A/59/365 Report of the Secretary General
(11 October 2004)
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DSS Professional enablers

• responsible for providing leadership,
  operational support and oversight of the security
  management system to enable the safest and most
  efficient conduct of the programmes and
  activities of the United Nations...
• 1830 staff in 150 locations
• 400 million / biennium

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The Security Management System
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Security Risk Management
Source Security Risk Management 24 June 2004
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Applications of Security

• Headquarters/conference security Bali
• Personal Protection Coordination S-G
• Natural disasters UNDAC
• Humanitarian emergencies
• Agencies, Funds and Programmes
• Implementing Partners Saving Lives Together
• High Risk programmes Iraq

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Principles

• Professionalisation
• Accountability
• Integrated system
• Risk assessment and mitigation
• Broad spectrum applicability/flexibility

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Securing what we value most

• There is no more important responsibility than
  to ensure the protection of my staff. Those
  talented and dedicated men and women carry out
  vital missions of development and peace
  throughout the world, in always challenging and
  sometimes hostile circumstances. They need and
  indeed deserve the best possible safety and
  security.
• S-G Kofi Annan, 1 November 2004