Community safety
We all have a right to safety and security. Each community faces different challenges to their security.
Community safety puts ordinary residents in the lead. It helps them identify their safety and security needs and brings them together with police, local authorities and other security providers to make sure they are met.
What we do
We support community safety projects in South Eastern Europe and Asia using methods similar to those of community-based policing.
Read a case study about community safety in Kosovo
Read more about the methodology used and lessons learned in our report, 'Creating safer communities' which documents our experiences of developing community safety programmes in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia.
Download 'Creating safer communities: Lessons from South Eastern Europe'
Find out more
Read more about our community safety work in:
Read about our work on community-based policing
Find out how you can support us
"The community safety plans project is definitely one of the most practical projects ever implemented in this municipality."
Mayor of Cair, Macedonia.
Contact
Simon Rynn
Security and Justice Sector Development Adviser
News
- Supporting security in Bangladesh
- Saferworld works with the police and local communities in Bangladesh to improve safety and security.
- Saferworld annual review
- In November Saferworld published its annual review
- Actvities October 2008
- Download Saferworld's activity report for October.
- UN First Committee vote on the Arms Trade Treaty
- The UN General Assembly's First Committee on Disarmament and International Security votes to work towards an Arms Trade Treaty
- An open letter to international donors in Georgia
- Saferworld and other NGOs send an open letter to the international Donors' Conference on Georgia being held in Brussels on 22nd October.