Opinion: 2 blind spots in managing risk can undermine NGOs' raison d'être

In April 2015, I received the call that no CEO wants to receive.

The bodies of five Save the Children staffers working on one of our Australian-funded programs in Afghanistan had been discovered.

The staffers had been kidnapped by an armed opposition group about five weeks earlier when they were traveling through Uruzgan province, about 7 or 8 kilometers from the provincial capital of Tirin Kot, to assess a new community development project.

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