RANIA GUINDY

Generalist delegate with deployments fulfilled in Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Senegal, South Sudan, and Syria in diverse capacities.

• Safety & Security Leadership: Supported in oversight of safety and security for 500 staff, developed tailored security measures, and ensured compliance with protocols and standards.
• Stakeholder Relations: Represented ICRC externally, cultivating relationships with authorities, UN clusters, and community leaders to support safe humanitarian operations.
• Multi-Sector Coordination: Coordinated Health, WASH, Economic Security, and Logistics departments, aligning strategies with complex and volatile contexts.
• Logistics Management: Efficiently managed critical care transfers, cargo, and logistics, ensuring operational safety and compliance.

• Conducted thorough security assessments along vital routes and successfully secured necessary security guarantees to enable resumption of activities following period of heightened violence. (Mission interrupted for internal reasons)

• Security and Crisis Management: Adapted and implemented security, safety, and crisis policies, facilitating operational agility in fluctuating contexts.
• Expanding and Maintaining Networks: Developed meaningful communication with diverse network of interlocutors, spanning humanitarian counterparts and hardline armed groups, sustaining operational relevance and security
• Humanitarian Access in High-Risk Areas: Enabled the opening of new overland routes and humanitarian relief operations in previously inaccessible areas.
• Analysis and Reporting: Produced high-quality, actionable analytic reports on key threats, significant gaps to inform operational planning related to access and security.
• Capacity Building of Staff: Reinforced all-staff training on risk and security analysis, scenario planning and promoted inclusion, participation, and leadership

• Integrated Security Management : Led a multi-disciplinarian protection strategy for Northern Iraq during Mosul crisis, forged trust with key stakeholders, enhancing ICRC's security in a volatile environment
• Networking and Access: Established wide network of key stakeholders in Mosul, developed dialogue and fostered trust, eventuating in gaining operational access and tangible impacts in critical areas.
• Capacity Building : Trained and coached novice delegates on risk awareness and integrated strategy.

• Managed protection activities across 5 West African countries, prioritizing safety and security for asylum seekers and migrants. Led diverse stakeholder forums, collaborated with UN agencies, state authorities, INGOs, and CSOs to drive migration-related initiatives.

• Risk Analysis and Contingency Planning : Monitored security and political trends, assessed risks arising from the spillover from Syrian conflict, developed case scenarios, contributed to contingency plans.
• Information Network Development : Developed diverse network of contacts for multi-source, analytical data collection in highly complex environments.
• Humanitarian Access: Negotiated the delivery of medical dressing kits to provide assistance to wounded women and children in opposition-controlled areas affected by conflict.

• Led comprehensive programs addressing the needs of missing persons' families in the aftermath of the Libyan conflict. Coordinated cross-sectoral efforts and advocated for essential processes to clarify the fate and whereabouts of missing persons.

• Conducted regular visits to high-security Palestinian detainees undergoing ISA interrogation, participated in team visits to Palestinian security detention centers in Gaza and the West Bank to monitor conditions, treatment and engage respective detention authority in confidential dialogue to discuss any arising issues.
• Took part in interviewing and transfer of 477 Palestinian detainees exchanged for release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.