Following the recommendations of a December 2003 Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Principals meeting, a Taskforce on Collaborative Approaches to Security (TCAS) was formed to explore collaborative measures that could be taken by the humanitarian community to address increasing insecurity in the context of field missions. Ultimately, the High-Level Humanitarian Forum (HLHF) held in March 2004 laid out the dimensions of the TCAS’s work. This paper summarizes the dimensions and briefly describes the measures.
