Travel Risk Management for Africa
One operating discipline for every movement: authorise the trip, assess the destination, monitor the journey, respond to the incident. Built for organisations whose people work where the risk is real.
The operating cycle
Plan. Assess. Monitor. Respond.
No GPS gimmicks and no automated messaging. A documented duty-of-care trail your board, insurer and donor can read after the fact.
Plan
Trip request to written authorisation
Every movement starts as a request with a named traveller, purpose, route and dates. The desk checks it against the destination baseline before anyone books a flight, and authorisation is recorded rather than assumed.
- Traveller profile and next of kin on file
- Trip request with route, dates and purpose
- Authorisation level set by destination risk band
- Pre-travel brief issued to the traveller
Assess
Destination and route risk, written down
Destination risk is rated on a 5x5 matrix across the threats that actually stop movement: kidnap, armed conflict, crime, road safety, unrest, health and detention. Controls are named against each threat, with residual risk stated.
- Country and city risk rating with drivers
- Threat register with inherent and residual risk
- Named controls and traveller advice
- Exportable assessment PDF for the file
Monitor
Journey management with check-in discipline
Once a traveller moves, the journey runs on a check-in clock. Departure, en-route, arrival. A missed check-in is flagged as overdue on the board and escalated, not quietly forgotten.
- Live movement board by country and risk band
- Check-in interval per journey
- Overdue and escalation flags
- Standing intelligence watch on the destination
Respond
Incident management and after-action record
When something happens, the incident is logged against the journey, the response is run to a defined escalation ladder, and the record survives the event so lessons and liability are both documented.
- Incident log with severity and status
- Escalation ladder and on-call routing
- Crisis support from the advisory desk
- After-action note held with the journey
Destination risk
Written assessments, not colour-coded guesswork
Each destination carries a rating on our 5x5 matrix, the threats driving it, and the authorisation level a movement to that band requires. These are the assessments already written up; the wider continent runs on analyst-reviewed baselines.
| Destination | Region | Rating | Primary threats | Authorisation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sudan | North Africa | Critical · 4.6/5 | Active civil war, Shelling and airstrikes, Armed looting | Country director + security sign-off, journey management mandatory |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Central Africa | Severe · 3.7/5 | Eastern armed groups, M23 offensive activity, Abduction | Security manager sign-off, journey management mandatory |
| Nigeria | West Africa | Substantial · 3.4/5 | Kidnap-for-ransom, Banditry, ISWAP/Boko Haram (north-east) | Line manager sign-off, check-in schedule required |
| Somalia | Horn of Africa | Substantial · 3.1/5 | Kidnap, Armed conflict, IED and complex attack | Line manager sign-off, check-in schedule required |
| Ethiopia | Horn of Africa | Substantial · 3.0/5 | Amhara and Oromia conflict, Armed abduction, Localised militia activity | Line manager sign-off, check-in schedule required |
| Kenya | East Africa | Moderate · 2.4/5 | Terrorism (north-east), Violent crime, Al-Shabaab cross-border raids | Line manager notification, standard brief |
Run it from the portal
Your travel operations desk
Client accounts run the whole cycle in the portal: traveller records, trip authorisation, destination assessments, the live movement board with check-in discipline, and the incident log. On-call crisis advisory sits behind it.
- Movements monitored
- Journey board with check-in clock
- Destinations
- 54 African states in coverage
- Escalation
- Named ladder, on-call advisory
- Record
- Exportable assessments and journey plans
Ratings shown are analyst assessments held by INGO ADVISORY and are reviewed on a rolling basis. Bands are indicative for planning; they do not replace a written assessment for a specific movement.Example band chip