Today's workshop was broken into two halves.

This morning constituted a conversation with the Ugandan Red Cross. Much of the morning was an introduction to Red Cross methodology, which was a little dry for most of us that have worked in the field before. However, importantly, there was opportunity to discuss inter-agency cooperation, dissemination of resources, sharing of statistical data and so on.

The afternoon sessions were more lively and serious. Security and safety are becoming major concerns for all humanitarian actors, definitely including The Salvation Army. For the first half of the afternoon we discussed the new inclusions of protection principles in the SPHERE handbook (minimum standards manual in humanitarian response). We worked through practical examples of how we protect project beneficiaries when we are at work.

The second part of the discussion was about protection of our own teams. Litigation is one concern, but more than that we need to ensure that we are aware of our duty of care to our teams in the field.

This evening we are preparing for our road trip into the Ugandan countryside.