Organisational Protection for NGOs

Counter-threat is a fast moving theme that is justifiably receiving a great deal of global attention. Staff at Explosive Learning Solutions have experience in key operational roles within Counter-threat/C-IED and are experts in this field. We continue to actively contribute to domestic and international initiatives across all Lines of Operation. Increasingly NGOs are being confronted by this threat, either due to the overall threat environment or due to the manner by which IEDs have been deployed as traditional mines. Using our high threat IEDD practitioners we can design and deliver training and capacity building across all tenets of C-IED. We maintain a full-time threat team whose responsibility is to monitor and assess threat, ensuring that solutions are timely, relevant and appropriate.               

We are focused at capacity building, both directly to national authorities, or through partner NGOs / UN Agencies. Work in this area has reach-back into the rest of the company, offering specialisms in a variety of associated fields, including: force protection (CIED / IEDD), project management, organisational management and development, change management, learning design, procurement and acquisition, and logistics management.

Organisational and Institutional Development

A great deal of emphasis is placed on the clearance of ERW in post-conflict environments and the strategic and operational planning is often undertaken by UN agencies and the operating NGOs with their donors. A greater emphasis is now being placed on developing the capabilities of the national institutions and developing synergy with the wider humanitarian programme. Staff at Explosive Solutions have worked at the highest level in various NGOs and have been involved in various transition plans and DDR initiatives. We can provide bespoke training and education to support the transition to national ownership, using specifically selected SMEs, who are able to bring experience in depth and deliver capacity building in a culturally sensitive manner. Examples of this type of capacity building to aid transition may be:

Project Management – Project Management includes the skills of both operational and strategic management.  Where appropriate we can provide the internationally recognised PRINCE2 qualification.

Quality Management – Quality control and quality assurance and critical to all aspects of a programme and often found to be the most challenging for transition. Using IMAS as a base, capacity and capability is developed beyond just clearance programmes, into the wider business.

HR Management – Critical to the long term success of the national institutions, capacity can be developed not just in areas of people management / leadership, succession planning, but also in the development of staff training.

Information Management – Going beyond IMSMA, capacity can be developed in the development of robust and sustainable information systems to suit the needs and resources of the national institution.

Organisational and Process Management– Critical to the development of national institutions, which have often been established in the early days of post conflict.  Capacity can be developed in organisational design, process improvement, totally bespoked to the needs of the institution.

Logistics Management – Often kept within the remit of the UN Agency or NGO, a critical and high cost capacity gap can exist post transition. Our acquisition experts have vast experience in systems integration and the cross Lines of Development (XLODs) approach to procurement and acquisition. As such, we ensure that capability needs are met.

IMAS compliant EOD training - We offer a 5-day Application of IMAS course, plus a 1-day IED/UXO/Mines Awareness Training, as well as bespoke EOD training to levels 1, 2, 3 and 4.

BAC and Military Range Clearance

Explosive Learning Solutions can offer holistic solutions in the areas of BAC and increasingly poorly managed / disused, military ranges. Often posing a significant threat to communities, we can work with national institutions to develop strategies for the clearance and maintenance of such land. These solutions are integrated, based on IMSMA, but totally bespoke to the national needs. They include the development of clearance plans, equipment procurement, programme management and training to ensure an enduring capability.

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