Research areas
Independent, non-commercial research into security risk, security intelligence, operational risk, regional security, emerging threats, early warning and professional development — across Africa, with a focus on East Africa and the Horn of Africa.
Research areas
Each area feeds the others: open-source monitoring supplies the raw material, analysis adds context and judgement, and practical resources turn the findings into something usable in the field.
Threat identification, vulnerability and exposure analysis, likelihood and impact rating, and mitigation logic — written so the assessment can be defended in front of a board or a country management team.
Structured open-source intelligence across Africa: incident monitoring, indicator tracking and specialist watches. Records are harvested from public sources, cross-referenced where possible, and published with provenance and reliability grading.
Analysis of political transitions, armed conflict dynamics, actor alignment, sanctions and regional competition — traced through to what it means for security posture, movement and continuity in specific countries.
Journey management, corridor and route risk, travel safety and duty-of-care frameworks for organisations moving staff through complex environments. Advisory and planning only — no physical protection, rescue or evacuation services.
The discipline that carries a finding from assessment to closure: scoping security workstreams, sequencing mitigation, assigning ownership, tracking implementation and evidencing that controls were actually put in place.
Crisis phases, scenario planning, incident classification and post-incident analysis — designed so the first hour of an incident follows a rehearsed structure rather than improvisation.
How we support users
A simple way to read the platform. Each step maps to one of the three focus areas.
Monitor
Security Intelligence & OSINTAssess
Risk & Threat AnalysisManage
Security Project ManagementSupporting research themes
These surfaces organise the platform's open-source intelligence, country records and operational tools.
A structured Africa risk dashboard summarising analyst-reviewed records, threat levels and country exposure.
Country-by-country security and political risk ratings with the reasoning and evidence behind each rating.
A transparent catalogue of the open sources, datasets and methodologies used across the platform, with reliability grades.
How statements are classified, how confidence is assigned and how the platform separates public data from analyst judgement.
Open-source intelligence
INGO ADVISORY is an independent, non-commercial research project. Its analysis is built from open-source and licensed public data, cross-referenced where possible and published with source attribution and confidence. It is not a continuously staffed monitoring service and does not provide physical security, rescue or evacuation.
Source registryPan-African perspective. Horn of Africa and East Africa depth.
INGO ADVISORY provides Africa-focused intelligence and research, with particular operational depth across the Horn of Africa and East Africa — Somalia, Somaliland, Puntland, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.
How the work connects
Open-source tracking produces raw material, contextual analysis adds judgement, and practical resources turn insight into usable tools.
Monitor
Security Intelligence & OSINTAssess
Risk & Threat AnalysisManage
Security Project ManagementResearch environment
An open-source research environment maintained as part of INGO ADVISORY's independent professional development work.
Information is compiled from publicly available sources and presented with clear distinctions between confirmed information, reported information, analytical assessment and potential scenarios.
Independent research
Open-source analysis of security developments, operational risk and emerging threats across Africa, with a focus on East Africa and the Horn of Africa.